Space

Space.com caught up with Dr. Z recently to discuss his favorite missions, the advice he’d give to his successors and the incredible growth of the space community over the past few years.

Fresh off the 1.4-million-mile Artemis 1 test flight around around the moon, NASA’s Orion spacecraft arrived Dec. 30 back at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians will offload propellants and payloads, and begin removing internal hardware destined to fly back to the moon with astronauts on the next Orion […]

Lunar libration shows our satellite from a new angle, while comets, asteroids, and star clusters also take center stage from January 6 to 13.

Europe entered 2023 with what meteorologists described as the most intense winter heatwave in history and satellites witnessed it from space.

Take a trip down memory lane to revisit the most spectacular comets of the past half-century.

NASA has awarded the Space and Earth Sciences Data Analysis-V (SESDA-V) contract to ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide Earth and Space Science research and development at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Is blue the true color of the sky, or the only color of the sky? It’s complicated.

SpaceX’s first launch of the year hauled 114 small satellites into polar orbit for operators in 23 countries. Liftoff occurred at 9:56 a.m. EST (1456 GMT) Tuesday. The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket returned to Cape Canaveral for landing about eight-and-a-half minutes later.

To help her hunt down dark matter, Necib employs a rather new tool: machine learning.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of galaxies distorting each other as they merge in a great galactic get-together.