On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them
On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them
Blue Origin has announced a partnership with Scout Space, a company focused on orbital domain awareness and safety in space. Scout’s Owl sensor will be the first payload to fly
The head of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome program says the technologies needed to create an ambitious space-based missile defense system are already in existence. U.S. Space Force General Michael
WASHINGTON — NASA scientists and engineers are demanding Congress help turn down the heat on an agency whose current leadership, they say, is burning down American dominance in space and
(Image credit: Miguel Claro) Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern
This image, which the European Southern Observatory released on March 27, 2024, shows the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way in polarized light. A new mission
SpaceX’s Crew-11 astronaut mission will arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) early Saturday morning (Aug. 2), and you can watch the action live. Crew-11’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour,
Two wildfires in Northern Arizona, sparked from lightning, have burned at least 60,000 acres in a little over a week — and, while firefighters work around the clock trying to
The United States and China aren’t the only powerful, wealthy nations in the world, and they’re certainly not the only nations active in space.
WASHINGTON — A Crew Dragon spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with a new crew, but how long they will stay at the station remains unclear.






