Space

NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel, and is preparing to pack it into a capsule for launch Saturday, Oct. 16.

On Sept. 29, 1977, the Salyut 6 space station launched into orbit. See how it happened in our “On This Day in Space” video series!

In yet another Great Red Spot surprise, researchers find winds in the huge storm’s outer reaches have sped up over the past decade.

Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut strapped into their Soyuz ferry ship Tuesday at the International Space Station and moved the craft to a new docking port on Russia’s Nauka lab module that arrived at the complex in July.

Scientists have a good estimate on the staggering number of stars in the universe.

As part of an effort aimed at making aviation more sustainable, NASA has transferred findings from an air traffic management project to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for nationwide implementation, the two agencies announced at a media briefing Tuesday.

New satellite images of an active volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma capture vivid streams of lava pouring down the coastal mountain range and nearing the Atlantic Ocean.

A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set for launch with the Landsat 9 satellite, a joint project between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, and four small CubeSat rideshare payloads.

Love and sex need to happen in space if we hope to travel long distances and become an interplanetary species, but space organizations are not ready.

The InSight Mars lander detects three powerful marsquakes in one month, shedding new light on the planet’s interior.