Space

Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket is set for launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, at 5:56 p.m. EDT (2156 GMT) Tuesday. The two-stage rocket will haul a commercial Cygnus supply ship into orbit heading for the International Space Station.

NASA is continuing its support of university research into technologies for future helicopters and other vertical lift aircraft in partnership with the U.S. Army and Navy.

Scientists are using infrared to better explore Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system.

It’s that time of the year again! The Perseid meteor shower, which peaks this week, is highly-anticipated by observers hoping to enjoy the spectacular sight of multiple meteors raining down during mild summer nights.

Last week’s progress at SpaceX’s Starship development site culminated with the spectacular, but brief, sight of a fully-stacked launcher towering nearly 400 feet above the tidal flats of South Texas.

Iron-rich rock layers deposited during Earth’s most extreme ice ages could explain how oxygen persisted in oceans.

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system and is known for its short years, long days, extreme temperatures and weird sunsets.

An X-ray outburst from a binary black hole system creates spectacular “light echoes” as the radiation bounces off intervening dust clouds, shedding light on the hole’s activity and the nature of the smoke-like dust grains.

On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Engineers are assessing an initial, unsuccessful attempt by the Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first rock sample from the floor of Jezero Crater.