Space

The word dust comes up often in descriptions of galaxies and elsewhere. What is the nature of dust? Isaac Turiel Berkeley, California To most people, dust can be any combination of small particles of soil, rock, human skin, human or animal dander, pollen, and tiny bits of fiber. But space […]

La NASA ha elegido a diez nuevos candidatos a astronautas entre más de 12.000 solicitantes, para representar a los Estados Unidos y trabajar en el espacio para el beneficio de la humanidad.

Dune is no longer streaming on HBO Max, but it’s expected to return to the service in the near future.

As 2021 draws to a close, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are seen together soon after sunset in the south to south-western sky. This attractive and enticing spectacle is embellished when a waxing crescent Moon comes a-calling in early December.

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive, said Friday that crews have started construction of the first Starship orbital launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida inside the gates of historic launch complex 39A.

The current international fleet of explorers follows the path blazed by NASA’s pioneering Mariner 9 mission.

NASA researchers and colleagues from around the world will present the latest findings on a range of Earth and space science topics at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, being held virtually and in New Orleans from Monday, Dec.13, through Friday, Dec. 17.

The company received three more mission orders for Crew Dragon as Boeing Starliner works to get off the ground.

United Launch Alliance delayed the planned launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Sunday after discovering a kerosene fuel leak in the launch pad’s ground storage system. Officials tentatively rescheduled launch with two U.S. military satellites for Monday morning.

On Dec. 5, 2014, NASA’s Orion space capsule launched for the first time. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space series.