Space

The White House’s fiscal year 2023 budget request for NASA totals $26 billion, including $7.5 billion for the agency’s Artemis moon program, a boost over this year’s budget to help pay for development of a second human-rated lander to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface.

Once every 10 years, U.S. astronomers publish a decadal survey listing their goals — and the tools needed to accomplish them.

El presupuesto del presidente para el año fiscal 2023 permitiría a la NASA mantener el liderazgo en innovación global de Estados Unidos y mantener a la NASA a la vanguardia de la exploración y el descubrimiento al regresar a la Luna con el programa Artemis, entre otros esfuerzos.

The new moon occurs on April 1 at 2:24 a.m. EDT (1624 GMT). Our guide explains which planets and constellations are visible during the April new moon 2022.

Planetary nebula NGC 6781 lies in the constellation Aquila the Eagle. But while this star figure ranks 22nd in size among the 88 constellations, you won’t find any Messier objects or emission nebulae in it. In fact, although it sits squarely within the Milky Way, it contains few even reasonably […]

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 29, to discuss the upcoming final major test with the agency’s Mega Moon rocket and spacecraft at the launch pad ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mission.

A newly-discovered asteroid about the size of a house is passing close by Earth on Monday (March 28) but is no cause for alarm.

On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union’s Phobos 2 mission to Mars’ moons ended in failure. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

NASA officials gave the green light Friday for the first all-commercial astronaut launch to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket as soon as April 3. But the astronaut launch could be delayed a day, or longer, to give priority to a countdown test for NASA’s Space Launch System […]

NASA to Host Briefings, Interviews for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission