NASA is delaying the launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

In 1973, the Skylab space station hosted astronaut scientists conducting experiments to enhance understanding of Earth and ...

Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...

A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

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Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he caught it in direct sunlight, in conjunction with the so-called lunar ...

The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...

Onboard the IM-2 lander is a payload by Lonestar, a Florida-based startup, which merges art with data backup and technology.

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on Feb. 27 to send a probe to the moon in search of water. But less than a week after launch, NASA lost track of the spacecraft, which may ...