The area immediately above our planet where most of our satellites live might seem like an inexhaustible place, but…
A day after its launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX’s uncrewed Crew Dragon spacecraft has successfully docked with…
Aerospace company SpaceX and NASA launched the uncrewed Dragon spacecraft in the early hours of Saturday morning from…
Following our first good look at 2014 MU69 back in January, New Horizons has beamed back its crispest shots of the…
The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has completed one of its most exciting challenges yet: On Thursday evening, it…
The spacecraft Hayabusa2's first touchdown onto the asteroid Ryugu is scheduled for this week. If successful, the craft…
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space but…
Scientists have spotted a potential asteroid crater in Greenland just 114 miles away from another one announced a few…
The 50-acre Boca Chica, Texas facility where Elon Musk’s SpaceX is testing the prototype version of its Starship…
The distant (486958) 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, made history on New Year’s Day for becoming the farthest object…
Last week, local media reports indicated that a meteorite hit the Cuban town of Viñales after soaring across the…
What seems to be a meteorite has struck the western Cuban town of Viñales, according to local news reports.
January 2019 is nearly over and—for now—so is the month-plus federal government shutdown that blanketed national parks i…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin has officially started construction on a Huntsville, Alabama facility…
NASA’s beloved Mars rover Opportunity has been silent for months after getting swept up in an enormous dust storm on…
Elon Musk’s prototype of the Starship spacecraft—the payload of a system formerly known as the Big “Falcon” Rocket, and…
NASA has pulled astronaut Eric Boe, who was scheduled as a crew member for the first manned test flight of Boeing’s…
Scientists have found evidence of seasons on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, thanks to observations akin to…
The human tolerance for sound is, on a galactic level, puny. Volcano eruptions, jackhammer-intensive construction work,…
Russia’s only orbiting space radio telescope, Spektr-R (RadioAstron), has stopped responding to the spacecraft’s…
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