Space

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will speak to elementary school students about the future of space exploration Monday, May 9, and tour a lab working on robotic construction technologies Tuesday, May 10, during a trip to Florida.

NASA’s next-generation observatory is entering the last stages of preparation before showing scientists an all-new view of the universe.

Three NASA astronauts and a European Space Agency mission specialist left the International Space Station early Thursday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, heading for splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida to wrap up a 176-day expedition in orbit.

Using a new technique, researchers have spotted the system some 3,000 light-years away.

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 9, to discuss progress toward preparing the James Webb Space Telescope for science operations.

NASA scientists have begun to study 50-year-old samples of the moon’s surface, collected during the agency’s final moon landing mission, Apollo 17.

Rocket Lab used a helicopter to capture a spent Electron first stage booster and its parachute after launching satellites from New Zealand Monday, a significant step forward for the company’s rocket recovery and reuse program. The helicopter dropped the rocket a few seconds later.

If you love common names for deep-sky objects, NGC 3532 in the constellation Carina the Keel will give you all you want. Various amateur astronomers through the years have called it the Firefly Party Cluster, the Football Cluster, the Wishing Well Cluster, the Pincushion Cluster, and the Black Arrow Cluster. […]

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 5, to discuss the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Meteorites are turning up in Mississippi following a fireball over the state on April 27.