Space

Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard spacecraft will take to the skies this week for the first time in nine months. 

The International Space Station just dodged a fast-moving hunk of orbiting junk.

Dark matter makes up the vast majority of matter in the universe, but we can’t see it. At least, not directly. Whatever the dark matter is, it must interact with everything else in the universe through gravity, and astronomers have found that if too much dark matter collects inside of […]

Bridenstine: “I really hope people take away from this discussion that we are an instrument of national power.”

The fall equinox is today (Sept. 22), but for many it may feel like autumn has already arrived, with crisp weather in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest, apple picking signs at U-pick farms and pumpkin spice lattes at local coffee shops. 

The Artemis program will see a man and a woman astronaut land on the Moon by 2024.

While the homage is arbitrary, the exoplanet still has scientific significance.