This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk on July 20, 1969. (NASA Johnson video) July 1969. It ...

After 340 days on the ISS, astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth to find his own home felt staged, his skin broke out from ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrived at near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa on July 6, 2026, completing a 400-day, 1-billion-kilometer voyage to one of the strangest objects in Earth's neighborhood ...

Communications experiments carried out by CAPSTONE could be invaluable for future Artemis missions.

A comet first discovered in 1873 is approaching Earth during one of its most favorable viewing events in decades. Its orbit ...

The discovery boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial life.

For most of human history, our view of “close to the Sun” was defined by the orbit of Mercury, with its 88-day orbit and barren, baking surface. But from the moment we started discovering exoplanets, ...

The expense of launching cargo into space will plummet over the next few years, with the cost of reaching orbit forecast to ...

The solar system is a dynamic place, and objects located 180° from a planet don’t stay that far from the planet for long. The reason is the differences in their orbits. Orbits come in all shapes and ...

SpaceX’s IPO was predictably a success, making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. He reiterated his goal of traveling to Mars and settling there. There have been many instances in the past of ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like the ...

Perseverance strikes again with an intriguing — yet unresolved — clue in the search for past life on Mars. In an ancient river channel, the rover detected complex organic carbon within and on rocks, ...