Space

Clouds are rare on Mars and usually only pop up at the coldest time of the year near the planet’s equator. One…

Here are the winning photos from the 2021 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest.

Ingenuity experienced an “in-flight anomaly” during its sixth flight on the Red Planet, causing it to fly…

The Government Accountability Office said it’s becoming increasingly unlikely that a crewed lunar landing will be…

On Wednesday, May 26, the Moon will move into Earth’s shadow, resulting in the first total lunar eclipse in nearly…

The flimsy-looking but impressively tenacious Ingenuity has booked its sixth flight on Mars. Slated for sometime…

Equipped with headlights and a suite of powerful instruments, NASA’s VIPER is poised to revolutionize our…

Last May, a spot suddenly appeared in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. But as new images from the Juno spacecraft…

The European Space Agency has detailed its plan for a network of lunar satellites that will support a human presence…

A team of Japanese astronomers recently peered way, way back in time using a telescope array in Chile. What they…

Gaseous nickel was shedding from interstellar comet 2I/Borisov when it briefly visited our solar system two years…

On Sunday, China became the second country to successfully land a mission on Mars. The Zhurong rover, now…

Coronal mass ejections are regular space weather events involving huge, fast-moving expulsions of plasma from the…

SpaceX has demonstrated its ability to land Starship, but the company still needs to send the prototype rocket into…

Later today, China will attempt to become just the second country to successfully deploy a probe on Mars. Here’s…

Though named for the Roman riff on Zeus, the planet Jupiter looks every bit a happy home for Hades in an infrared…

As NASA’s little helicopter whirred off to its new airfield on Mars, one could practically hear the sigh of relief…

OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft tasked with collecting rocks and dust from a nearby asteroid named Bennu, is coming bac…

In the wee hours of Thursday, June 10, 2021, you'll be able to see a sunrise eclipse—if you're in the right spot.