Part of a SpaceX rocket traveling at more than 5,000 miles per hour crashed into the moon early Wednesday morning. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, located at the Paranal ...

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The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back — the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an ...

A new mission will attempt to chart a mysterious ring-shaped current surrounding the Earth, so that researchers can better protect satellites and power infrastructure from charged particles in space.

NASA’s STORIE mission is poised to change our understanding of space weather and its impact on technology by offering an unprecedented inside-out view of Earth’s mysterious ring current. This ...

After the success of Artemis II, longer space journeys are expected, raising new health and nutritional challenges for astronauts. Current space foods rely on dried, shelf-stable items. A study ...

NASA could soon be scrambling to shore up the U.S.’s presence in low-Earth orbit, thanks to a key Senate committee that wants the space agency to extend the life of the International Space Station ...