How to use your smartphone to capture the August eclipse over Europe
Millions of people will get to experience — and film or photograph — a rare total solar eclipse…
SpaceX launches Starship on latest test flight with Starlinks
SpaceX’s mammoth Starship rocket blasted off Friday on another test flight stretching halfway around the world, this time…
Rare Pair of Improbably Light ‘Super-Puff’ Planets Is Discovered
Astronomers have found a pair of the lightest giant planets known in the universe in a star system…
Is Space Tourism Finally Ready for Takeoff?
In 2001, Dennis Tito, an American entrepreneur, paid a reported $20 million for a voyage to the International…
Live Updates: NASA Is Announcing Its Artemis III Astronauts
Apollo 8 offered a hopeful end to 1968, a year marked by assassinations, riots and the Vietnam War.…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover sends new self-portrait from the red planet
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover sent a self-portrait back to the agency this week with a sweeping backdrop of…
Chilling space crisis threatens the world as satellite swarm
When it all begins, we’ll be five days and 12 hours from disaster. But that unstoppable calamity would…
NASA’s Artemis II moonship returns to Florida after historic voyage
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its…
Mexico City is sinking nearly 10 inches every year. Scientists can see it from space
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City is sinking by nearly 10 inches (about 25 centimeters) a year, according…
Sightings of Meteors Surge, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
It seems as though stars have been shooting across the heavens far more than usual lately. In March,…
“It Was Survival Mode”: The Lunar Mission That Nearly Ended in Disaster
Griffin: During entry, there’s what we call a blackout, which is when it gets so hot that you…
Lunar crater naming by Artemis II astronauts follows Apollo tradition
HOUSTON (AP) — Lunar love knows no bounds. Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts…