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New NASA astronaut candidate Ben Bailey thinks that his 2,000 flight hours here on Earth might come in handy during a moon landing. The 38-year-old U.S. Army helicopter pilot can’t

HOUSTON — The first astronauts to visit the moon in the 21st century can’t wait for their trip. The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission to the moon, which

A pair of spacecraft have arrived in Florida ahead of their launch on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket and a voyage to the Red Planet. Launch and space systems

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The western United States is facing another destructive wildfire season,

Recently, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-1) spacecraft, were encapsulated inside the payload fairing

Coronagraph imagery of the partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21, 2025. (Image credit: NOAA, GOES-19 CCOR-1) On Sept. 21, while skywatchers on Earth were eagerly watching a partial solar eclipse

SpaceX just sent three space weather probes to the final frontier. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (Sept. 24) at 7:30 a.m.

Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, thanks to a new design that utilizes energy from the

They came from outer space: 75 mice, over 1,500 flies, cell cultures, microorganisms, plant seeds and more. A Russian biological research satellite toting more than 30 experiments landed on Sept.

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack. According to NASA, the Hubble Space