Space

China’s Chang’e 5 mission, tasked with bringing a sample of lunar dirt back to Earth, successfully landed on the Moon on Tuesday, marking the third time that China has placed a robotic spacecraft on the lunar surface. The lander will soon begin digging up samples of lunar soil, which will […]

One of the respected luminaries of the “Star Trek” universe is seven-time Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor, matte painter, prop maker, title designer, and storyboard artist Dan Curry, whose 18-year body of work on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Deep Space Nine,” “Voyager,” and “Enterprise” contributed myriad elements to the […]

See what’s up in the night sky for December 2020, including stargazing events and the moon’s phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

Giant black holes can launch jets that extend for tens of thousand of light-years, blasting clean out of their host galaxies. These jets can last for tens of millions of years. Recently astronomers have spotted the first-ever jet in the process of forming, creating a cavity in the span of […]

Warning: Spoilers for Season 2, Episode 5 of “The Mandalorian” below

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket will launch the FalconEye 2 Earth-imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday night (Dec. 1). It will lift off from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, at 8:33 p.m. EST (0133 GMT on Dec. 2). 

Engineers are racing to fix a failed piece of equipment on NASA’s future deep-space crew capsule Orion ahead of its first flight to space. It may require months of work to replace and fix. Right now, engineers at NASA and Orion’s primary contractor, Lockheed Martin, are trying to figure out […]

My Dad’s a pretty good woodworker, and recently completed a wooden table that looks surprisingly like Jupiter, Great Red Spot, atmospheric bands and all.