A rogue 3-ton piece rocket debris just collided with the moon | James Webb Space Telescope instrument to probe the universe's chemistry | In photos: Russia's invasion of Ukraine as seen in satellite images
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A rogue rocket stage ended its seven-year space odyssey today, finally slamming into the far side of the moon. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will hunt for its grave.
During the observatory's commissioning and ongoing mirror alignment, Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) team successfully finished initial check-out.
Russian military forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 and have been carrying out deadly attacks across the country ever since. See satellite images of the buildup to Russia's invasion and the resulting destruction in this Space.com gallery.
"This Week in Space," hosted by author Rod Pyle and Space.com Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik, premieres today (March 4) on the TWiT podcast network and can also be streamed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
In a new video, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) revealed the U.S. military's big plans for its future work in space. These plans, the video showed, include extending space awareness capabilities beyond geostationary orbit with the help of a new satellite called the Cislunar Highway Patrol System.
Ukrainian employees of the U.K.-headquartered rocket company Skyrora are helping to defend the space city of Dnipro as it braces for air strikes, while the company's Ukraine-born CEO admits that "there is nothing we can realistically do for them right now."
(NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko)
The map of a distant, lobe-shaped object called Arrokoth (2014 MU69) now has official names to accompany the images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Meet Sky, Akasa and Ka'an.
As we all feel the squeeze of rising living costs and as budgets get ever tighter it might seem like buying a telescope is out of the question. Fortunately, with a little forethought we can shop smarter and experience the wonders of the night sky for less than you might think.
They say that in space no one can hear you scream, but you're not in space, so scream as loud as you like! We think all of the titles mentioned here are worth checking out and have something interesting and unique to offer as part of the ever changing landscape of interactive horror stories.
