The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on…
This visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from global elevation maps and image mosaics by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.…
Astronomers have discovered a distant body that’s more than 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. Its provisional designation is 2018 VG18, but…
SpaceX is already leading the charge in commercialized spaceflight with a packed schedule of launches and partnerships with countless space agencies and private companies, but…
Virgin Galactic has been operating for a long time compared with other private spaceflight companies, but it had never actually flown in space before…
This is a NASA visualization that traverses the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field to showcase the varied appearances of galaxies and their three-dimensional…
By the end of last month, NASA announced that their future Mars rover March 2020 will land in the Jezero Crater on Mars. In…
After traveling through space for more than 2 years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived on Monday at its destination, asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe ("Origins,…
Last week, NASA named nine U.S. companies that will compete for funding under the space agency’s renewed long-term moon program, a private-public undertaking to develop…
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind after the low-frequency rumblings were collected by the InSight lander during its first week…
Science gets scaled up with this first 8K ultra high definition (UHD) video from the International Space Station. Get closer to the in-space experience…
Commander Scott Kelly who is spent a year on the International Space Station adds food coloring and pieces of an effervescent tablet to a…
NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) probe successfully completed its soft landing on Mars on Monday after a six-month, 480…
In a video that looks like something, a special effects workshop would produce, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has captured one of the most remarkable…
NASA is just hours away from plopping its robotic geoscientist, the Mars InSight lander, onto the surface of the Red Planet. Getting a rocket ride…
Rocket Lab expanded its lead on the budding industry of small rocket companies, announcing a $140 million investment round led by Australia's sovereign wealth fund.…
When the ExoMars 2020 mission touches down on the Red Planet, it will most likely be at Oxia Planum. After several years of discussion, the…
Astronomers have found strong evidence of a frigid alien world about 3.2 times more massive than Earth circling Barnard's Star, the dim red dwarf that…
The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s request to launch a constellation of 7,518 satellites into orbit, a major regulatory hurdle the company needed to…
Last week, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) confirmed the astronomical radio source in the middle of our galaxy is a huge black…