Space

You may want to keep your eyes on the sky this week, as an interesting sight could be visible if you look at the moon at just the right time.

For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet — not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.

SpaceX launched a test flight of Starship, its biggest and most powerful rocket. The launch lasted four minutes before a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”

The aurora borealis took a back seat to another phenomenon in Alaska over the weekend. What was the mystery spiral that had photographers looking up in confusion?

Photographer Todd Salat captured the images looking north toward Delta Junction just before 2am on Saturday.

The European Space Agency is on a quest to explore Jupiter and three of its moons.

On April 8, 2024, a total eclipse will be visible from the U.S. for the last time until 2045.

The crew will launch from Kennedy Space Center and orbit the moon for ten days in late 2024.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was aborted just seconds before launch.

Michigan students are looking for ways to feed astronauts in space as part of a competition with the NASA HUNCH program that combines a variety of disciplines from engineering to the culinary arts.

Starlink is a satellite-based internet system that SpaceX has been building for years to bring internet access to underserved parts of the world.

A rocket made almost completely of 3D-printed parts came within a half-second of blasting off Saturday on its debut flight, but remained grounded after back-to-back launch aborts.

The two brightest planets are seen together next to the Auriga Constellation and thousands of stars in an astrological show.

With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone. This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the...

The comet will be closest to Earth on Thursday.

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest encounters ever recorded.

The first Native American woman in space has ventured out on her first spacewalk.

Observers in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see the comet in the morning sky, NASA says.