Cislunar space is the area between Earth and the Moon, and it's becoming contested territory. The Air Force Research Lab tracks spacecraft beyond geosynchronous orbit - basically a traffic camera for ...

This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope ...

By Jeff DeWit As a proud American and loyal longtime supporter of President Donald J. Trump, I can say without ...

The first crewed moon landing in more than half a century may not be pulled off by SpaceX after all. But NASA isn't satisfied with the pace of Starship's development and is therefore shaking things up ...

On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe into space with the aim of studying the outer planets. Voyager 1 launched a couple of weeks after Voyager 2, and both probes have flown to the ...

Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell has told EarthSky that one or two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth every day. McDowell’s website, Jonathan’s ...

NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth's mysterious "halo". Some NASA missions are designed for very specific tasks, but all of ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang A SpaceX rocket launched on Wednesday morning ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --NASA officials are prepared to launch a mission that is designed to protect the Earth's technologies against the potentially damaging effects of solar storms. NASA and Space X ...

In 2022, NASA intentionally rammed a spacecraft into a small asteroid at 14,000 mph, knocking it off course. The goal was to demonstrate a proof of concept for keeping humanity safe from a space rock ...

The Artemis SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2022. NASA NASA is gearing up to send its first ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...