The James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination. Let's celebrate the team that got it there (op-ed) | SpaceX is launching Earth-watching radar satellite for Italy tonight! | Europe's Solar Orbiter probe flew through the tail of Comet Leonard
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Thousands of people worked hard to get Webb where it is today. Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science missions, has something to say about their hard work.
After a one-day delay due to weather, SpaceX will now launch Italy's new Earth-observation radar satellite tonight at 6:11 pm ET (2311 GMT)! Here's how to watch.
As Comet Leonard bid farewell to Earth and flew past Venus, the sun-studying spacecraft flew through the comet's long tail, giving humans a new perspective on the icy wanderer.
The S.S. Piers Sellers, named for British-American astronaut Piers Sellers, is the first Cygnus to be named for a space station-era career astronaut who died after the spacecraft entered service.
The Tokyo-based company ispace is planning a series of robotic moon missions with the first, called M1, expected to visit Earth's celestial companion at the end of 2022. But its follow up is now a year late.
On Tuesday (Jan. 25) China launched the first of a pair of radar satellites that will provide important geological data following earthquakes and landslides. You can watch it launch here!
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious, flickering object in our galaxy, the Milky Way, that belches enormous amounts of energy toward Earth three times an hour.
A solar eclipse on one side of Earth stimulated aurora displays on the opposite side of our planet, a new study finds. The "ring of fire" or annular solar eclipse occurred on June 10, 2021 over the Arctic Circle.
SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket for the U.S. Air Force, a possible point-to-point mission for its new Starship.
Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The name means "glowing" in Greek - a fitting description, as only a few planets, the full moon and the International Space Station outshine this star.
