Space

NASA has selected two companies – Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA of Denver and SpaceLink Corporation of McLean, Virginia – to develop capability studies to explore and demonstrate communications and navigation services in support of Artemis missions to the Moon.

A unique, helium-filled, sulfuric-acid resistant balloon called an aerobot successfully completed two test flights over the Nevada desert.

Messier 33 (NGC 598), the famous Triangulum Galaxy, takes its nickname from the constellation that hosts it.

The deliberate 14,000-mph crash of a small NASA probe into the asteroid Dimorphos two weeks ago nudged the 525-foot-wide body onto a slightly different course, NASA confirmed Tuesday, shaving 32 minutes off the time needed to complete one orbit around a parent asteroid known as Didymos.

Have you ever started something that lasted a lifetime? Charles Messier found a whitish smudge near Zeta (ζ) Tauri on Aug. 28, 1758, while following a comet he had discovered two weeks earlier. But this smudge didn’t look like any comet he had ever observed, so he noted its location […]

NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming return activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station.

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From Mars and Venus to Pluto and Titan, these windblown features are starting to tell their story.

Europe’s Copernicus Earth-observing mission Sentinel-2 captured a striking image of Italy’s Stromboli volcano less than five hours after it erupted early on Oct. 9.

The prototypical Seyfert galaxy M77 in Cetus is the brightest (magnitude 9) and closest (about 45 million light-years) of its class. Seyfert galaxies are named after American astronomer Carl Seyfert, who in 1943 created a list of galaxies that all have an exceptionally bright or starlike nucleus. Seyferts have a […]