Jeremiah Ostriker, an astrophysicist who helped set off a revolution in humankind’s view of the universe, revealing it to be a vaster, darker realm than the...
The vermilion, amethyst and jade ribbons of the northern and southern lights are some of Earth’s most distinctive features. But our planet doesn’t have a monopoly...
The engine shuddered to life around half past noon local time on Sunday, and with a guttural roar, the 92-foot-tall Spectrum rocket lifted slowly away from...
Another eclipse is upon us. On Saturday, the moon will cast its shadow on Earth’s surface, a phenomenon that people in parts of the United States,...
NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could take scientific experiments to the moon on a lower budget than the agency could....
The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost just completed its mission,...
If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack up some overtime pay. Not so for Suni Williams and...
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are headed home. The splashdown of their space capsule will end an unexpected nine months in space. Neither astronaut complained much...
From Thursday night into Friday morning, the Earth’s shadow gradually overtook the moon’s typically bright white face, which took on a ruddy red hue. It was...
An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several...
