Space

Bright planets hang in the west and Last Quarter Moon shines from April 7 to 14.

A NASA instrument to provide unprecedented resolution of monitoring major air pollutants – down to four square miles – lifted off on its way to geostationary orbit at 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday.

Observations by NASA’s DART spacecraft suggest that the asteroid Dimorphos formed from material flung into space by its spinning asteroid partner, Didymos.

Messier 17 is a familiar target for amateur astronomers, an impressive nebula in even modest telescopes. But the Swan reveals its vast extent in a spectacular shot from the European Southern Observatory’s 2.2-metre La Silla telescope.

Offering real-time rendering, this website is the perfect tool to preview the 2024 eclipse.

Technology in development today could radically change the future of air and space exploration. Nearly silent electric aircraft could ferry people and packages around cities, a sprawling radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon could reveal new secrets about the universe, and astronauts on long-duration missions could […]

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch a commercial Intelsat satellite with an NASA Earth science instrument early Friday (April 7). Here’s how to watch it live.

An analysis of archival data shows particles raining down from Saturn’s rings heat the planet’s upper atmosphere.

Reid Wiseman, a veteran U.S. Navy test pilot and former chief of NASA’s astronaut corps, will lead the four-person crew assigned to the Artemis 2 mission to carry people to the vicinity of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Wiseman says he views the crew’s […]

Eclipses have held sway over humanity since long before we knew what these events truly were.