Space

Amazon will launch 27 satellites as part of its Project Kuiper mission next week, aiming to build a constellation of over 3,000 internet satellites in orbit.

NASA's skywatching tips for April include a meteor shower and a distant cluster of stars.

Bringing home the Fram2 crew will involve a Crew Dragon splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, marking a first for SpaceX.

SpaceX's Fram2 crewmembers have had a bit of a rough start to their five-day mission.

SpaceX has launched the first-ever crewed mission on a polar orbit. And the view is incredible.

Space station astronaut Don Pettit's latest effort shows our planet as an 'Earthly eyeball.'

A SpaceX Crew Dragon with the largest window ever to have flown to space has just launched to orbit for the third time.

SpaceX just launched the Fram2 private crew to orbit. Watch the highlights here.

Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been speaking at a NASA news conference about their unexpectedly long stay in orbit.

SpaceX is gearing up to launch another privately funded space mission that's set to achieve several firsts.

Isar Aerospace's first launch of its two-stage Spectrum rocket didn't quite go as planned ...

A new image from James Webb shows a rare astronomical phenomenon called an Einstein ring.

The Gaia Observatory mission is coming to an end after 12 years of studying our galaxy.

New Zealand-based Rocket Lab has launched its third mission in two weeks, marking a new record for the up-and-coming SpaceX rival.

The moon will be passing in front of the sun on Saturday in a phenomenon known as a “partial solar eclipse," and parts of the U.S. and beyond can witness it.

James Webb has spotted auroras on Neptune for the first time.

A strange spiral shape seen in the sky over the UK wasn't aliens -- it had a more down-to-Earth cause.

NASA’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier than February 2026 for a flight that will send four astronauts on a voyage around the moon. The Artemis II astronauts, as well as folks following the mission preparations, will be pleased to learn that NASA […]

The Curiosity rover has found the largest ever organic molecules on Mars.

On her first visit to orbit, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has just met three robots stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star.

Astronaut John W. Young caused beef between NASA and congress by smuggling an illicit sandwich onto a space mission.

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies form in the early universe.

A ground-breaking new finding about dark energy suggests that it is changing over time.

A European dark matter telescope called Euclid has released its first treasure trove of data, showing galaxies by the thousand.

NASA has shared the first images of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams following the end of their epic nine-month space mission that was meant to last eight days.

A pod of curious dolphins greeted the returning Crew-9 astronauts shortly after splashdown on Tuesday.

NASA is about to give its first press conference just a couple of hours after Crew-9 returned from the space station in a nine-month mission that was only supposed to last eight days.

Before its mission came to an end, the Blue Ghost lander captured one more incredible view of sunset seen from the moon.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

After an nine-month stay that was only supposed to last eight days, NASA Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally left the ISS and are on their way home.

Their eight-day mission turned into nine months, but NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Williams are finally coming home.

Watch this time-lapse of SpaceX's Crew-10 capsule autonomously docking with the International Space Station on Sunday.

Firefly Aerospace shared a final message from Blue Ghost as the lander's lunar mission came to a close on Sunday.