Space

A new X-ray observing mission will change how we see and understand the ultra-hot universe. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will launch next week on the morning of August 28. (Note the current launch time occurs in the evening of […]

Education and community organizations can apply to receive a living piece of spaceflight history to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a seedling grown from a tree seed that flew around the Moon on the NASA’s Artemis I mission in late 2022.

Watch India’s Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover step onto the moon’s surface for the first time and have its picture taken from orbit.

SpaceX and NASA are counting down to the launch of an international crew on a six-month mission to the space station. A Falcon 9 carrying the Dragon capsule Endurance is scheduled to liftoff from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 3:50 a.m. EDT (0750 UTC) early Friday morning.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured its first set of striking images of the Ring Nebula (M57), revealing detail and intricate features of the final stages of a dying star. Located about 2,200 light-years from Earth, the nebula is shaped like a distorted doughnut molded from the outer layers […]

On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about major air pollutants over North America.

There’s a new Mandalorian warrior in town and her name is Sabine Wren. Learn more about her role in Star Wars Rebels, the Ahsoka series, and more.

India successfully landed its Chandrayaan 3 robotic probe on the surface of the Moon Wednesday. The Chandrayaan 3 lander touched down near the South Pole of the Moon at about 8:33 a.m. EDT (6:03 p.m. IST).

In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft, which had spent nearly two decades working in orbit around Saturn, ended its mission in a “Grand Finale.” But before the spacecraft went out in a blaze of glory by plunging into the planet’s atmosphere, it recorded subtle gravitational changes, which astronomers have now used […]

Read the latest news about SpaceX’s Crew-6 and Crew-7 missions to the International Space Station for NASA.