Space

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, atop an Antares rocket at 8:31 p.m. EDT (0031 UTC on Aug. 2). This mission marks the final flight of this generation of Antares rockets, which uses major components from Russia and Ukraine.

Life as we know it requires water. The good news is that the universe is full of water. The bad news is that the universe is a big place to search. With so many places  to look for life, all of them radically different from Earth and each other, scientists […]

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,200 pounds of NASA science investigations and cargo after launching at 8:31 p.m. EDT Tuesday from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

A meandering plot, terrible graphics, and unremarkable aliens are the undoing of this indy space horror game.

A family portrait of Jupiter and three of its Galilean moons shows off the skills of two “citizen scientists” using public domain imagery from NASA’s Juno orbiter.

The next quartet bound for the International Space Station will wait a bit longer before they can punch their ticket to space after Falcon Heavy delays pushed back the launch of the next Crew Dragon mission, NASA said Tuesday.

On May 27, 1973, a young journalist named Stephen Walther filed incorporation papers to begin publishing Astronomy magazine. The first issue was August 1973; by 1981, it was the largest-circulation title on the subject. It retains this distinction by a factor of two. Tragically, Stephen died a few years after […]

NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 7, to provide an update on the first astronaut flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner to and from the International Space Station.

Flight controllers mistakenly commanded Voyager 2 to point slightly away from Earth, interrupting communications, but the spacecraft is expected to reset itself in October.

NASA will highlight groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners are maximizing research and development aboard the International Space Station at the 12th annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference.