Athena got to the lunar surface Thursday afternoon, but the spacecraft's exact position is not yet clear.
Thursday's test flight, with the launch window opening at 6:30 p.m. ET, will attempt to deploy four Starlink simulators from the megarocket.
The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments.
The lunar lander is a pinprick in this sweeping image taken from lunar orbit.
The president is trying to pull a political stunt by claiming to rescue the two astronauts, but the Starliner crew shut it down.
It now takes just a fraction of a minute to detect neutron star mergers, thanks to advancements in a machine-learning-driven approach to astronomy.
Blue Ghost not only aced its touchdown, it filmed a breathtaking video in the process.
The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory.
The lander will spend the next two weeks exploring the site of an ancient impact on the Moon.
Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline of planetary evolution.
Researchers identified underground sedimentary layers on Mars similar to coastal formations on Earth.
After 45 days, Firefly Aerospace's lander is preparing for its big moment, and you can watch it live right here.
The two spacecraft were designed under low budgets, and the status of both is already in doubt.
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Tuesday, March 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET.
The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in April.
The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26. Watch it live right here.
The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.
While part of the seventh test launch of the super heavy-lift rocket was a success, stress on the propulsion system led to debris raining down on Turks and Caicos.
The Red Planet, as it’s often called, has a distinct hue, and a new theory about this coloration could have implications for our understanding of Mars' evolution.
