Space

The destination for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission looks big and bright in stunning new photos from the agency taken Tuesday (June 14).

A stunning Moon halo shines in the sky above the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

Engineers have made progress in attempts to fully unfurl a solar array wing that snagged on NASA’s Lucy asteroid explorer shortly after launch last October, adding to optimism that the spacecraft can complete its 12-year mission as planned.

The U.S. aims to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2025. Here’s how they’ll do it, piece by piece.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ESA (European Space Agency) Director General Josef Aschbacher signed two agreements Wednesday at the ESA Council meeting in Noordwijk, Netherlands, further advancing the space agencies’ cooperation on Earth science and Artemis missions.

Mercury will reveal itself at pre-dawn tomorrow (June 16) when the planet reaches greatest western elongation. Here’s how to see it.

The FAA is requiring SpaceX take more than 75 actions to reduce the environmental effects of flying its gigantic 40-story-tall Starship rocket from South Texas, but regulators said Monday they found no significant impacts and moved SpaceX a step closer to receiving a launch license.

What will white dwarfs, neutron stars, and brown dwarfs look like at the very end of their lives, when they no longer emit radiation? Bill Zuna Tallahassee, Florida Let’s look at a white dwarf first. These stellar remnants are the remains of Sun-like stars and are made mostly of carbon […]

NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

On Sunday (June 12), the car-sized Perseverance Mars rover snapped a photo that could be mistaken for a still from an “Indiana Jones” movie.