Space

The celestial action unfolded Sunday night into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises.

May’s full moon comes with a lunar eclipse and a fun name. Here’s what to know.

Astronomers have unveiled the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nearly all galaxies, including our own, are believed to have these giant black holes at their center, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to get images of them. The image released Thursday was...

May’s full moon comes with a lunar eclipse and a fun name. Here’s what to know.

The rare “super flower blood moon” occurs when the Earth is positioned directly between the moon and the sun.

Friday’s homecoming for the three Americans and one German caps the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s space taxi service.

Right now, spacefaring companies charge hundreds of thousands of dollars to tourists who want to see Earth from up high. But the company World View plans to charge $50,000 when it starts commercial space flights in 2024. Additionally, some seats on the initial flights will be given away for free, World View CEO Ryan Hartman said on LX News.

The interplanetary photo op was conducted earlier this month by the helicopter, NASA reported.

Jessica Watkins, an accomplished UCLA and Stanford grad who worked on the Curiosity rover with NASA JPL, will make history as the first Black woman to serve on a long-duration space mission.

SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires

The midmonth alignment is a relatively unusual opportunity for people to see multiple planets in the sky with the naked eye.

SpaceX launched a spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. government from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday.

Scientists from UCLA have made an exciting discovery that’s heading toward our part of the cosmos from the oldest, outermost part of the solar system: the largest comet astronomers have ever seen.

In a space-exploration-first, NASA’s Psyche mission will explore an asteroid made mostly out of metal rather than rocks. Scientists believe the Psyche asteroid may be the exposed core of an early planet — and it could tell us more about Earth.

Four private citizens made history by docking at the International Space Station Saturday. It’s the first private mission to the International Space Station with an all-civilian crew

The International Space Station (ISS) has been a symbol of international cooperation since it was conceived by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984. But that doesn’t mean the partnership hasn’t been uncomplicated — and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put the decades-long partnership at greater risk than ever before.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin carried six more space tourists out of the Earth’s atmosphere Thursday.

Hadrian Automation raised $90 million in funding led by venture firms Lux Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, as it works to transform the aerospace supply chain.

Comedian and actor Pete Davidson was previously announced to be flying with the crew, but his seat was turned over.