Space

Four astronauts will circle the moon in 2024, but we don’t know who they are yet. NASA released a new trailer March 29 teasing the big April 3 announcement.

Gravitational lensing helps astronomers find one of the most massive black holes yet discovered, a 30-billion solar mass monster at the heart of a remote galaxy.

SpaceX’s next launch will deliver 56 more Starlink internet satellites into the company’s global internet constellation after liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 4:01 p.m. EDT (2001 UTC) Wednesday.

NASA is taking home the honor of the Best Place to Work in the Federal Government among large agencies for 11 years in a row, as ranked by the Partnership for Public Service.

China is finalizing testing of a parachute system to help control falling rocket debris downrange.

The James Webb Space Telescope takes a rocky exoplanet’s temperature, giving astronomers a powerful new tool for studying alien worlds.

Structural failure of the nozzle at the base of a rocket engine powering an unpiloted New Shepard spacecraft toward the edge of space last September triggered a dramatic-but-safe in-flight abort, builder Blue Origin announced Friday, saying the company has identified fixes and plans to resume sub-orbital flights “soon.”

For years, astronomers have been detecting incredibly powerful pulses from the cosmos, without a confirmed source. Recent advances in astronomy are getting us closer to the solution.

NASA has selected Dr. Jon B. Olansen as the new manager of the agency’s Gateway Program, an international collaboration building humanity’s first lunar space station, which will support Artemis missions to the Moon.

Talks with two separate buyers collapsed over the weekend as Virgin Orbit seeks more cash to continue launch operations, a media report suggests.