Space

Continuing a “drama-free” test flight, NASA’s unpiloted Orion spacecraft is set to fire its main engine Thursday to leave a distant orbit around the moon, heading for a flyby close to the lunar surface next week to swing onto a trajectory bringing it back to Earth for splashdown in the […]

Enjoy a Full Cold Moon and the Red Planet looking its best from December 2 to 9.

NASA has awarded the Architect-Engineer Services Contract for Environmental Compliance and Restoration Services to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Dallas, to provide environmental compliance, monitoring, and remediation services at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) located in Ventura County, California.

Disney and Marvel Studios release the first trailer for next year’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.”

Spaceflight Now’s Stephen Clark interviews Barbara Cohen, Lunar Flashlight principal investigator from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat will be a rideshare payload alongside the ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1.

Mars reaches opposition one day after sliding behind the Moon; later in the month, our satellite pairs with Mercury and Venus to put on a holiday show.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a pair of U.S. spacewalks in December to install rollout solar arrays to increase electrical power in support of station operations and scientific research.

Read the latest news about SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station for NASA.

In this time-lapse video a Falcon 9 rocket is seen going upright at Cape Canaveral’s launch pad 40 on Nov. 29, 2022, ahead of the planned launch of ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1, the first privately-led Japanese mission to attempt a lunar landing.

The Rubin Observatory and Roman Space Telescope will reflect the accomplishments of their namesakes and transform our understanding of the universe.