NASA's lunar mobile launcher is one step closer to sending its first spacecraft to the moon. The launcher is now in final testing for Artemis 1 — an uncrewed test…
Russian ground teams prepare to encapsulate the mission’s 33 satellite payloads, and their Fregat upper stage, inside the payload fairing of the Soyuz-2.1b booster at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos…
The Hubble Space Telescope caught one spectacular show as the outburst of a supermassive star glows in bright, exploding fireworks. The star, called Eta Carinae, first erupted 170 years ago…
The ESA has announced a new mission to explore a comet. The Comet Interceptor mission will have a spacecraft wait in space until a pristine comet approaches the inner Solar…
A sweet, sweet orbital milestone will soon be on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). DoubleTree by Hilton, a hotel chain that is known for its warm chocolate…
It looks like a poster of the famous Hubble Deep Field, marked with white streaks by a child, or put away carelessly and scratched in the process. But it’s not.…
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, and Canadian flight engineer David Saint-Jacques. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos A Russian cosmonaut, his Canadian co-pilot and…
Take a look at any galaxy in the universe through a telescope or in pictures captured by observatories and you might think you have a good idea of its shape.…
Laurel Kornfeld June 18th, 2019 Artist’s depiction of the COSMIC-2 satellite on orbit. Image Credit: NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to launch six remote-sensing micro-satellites next…
To help protect satellites in space, NASA is exposing a small spacecraft to a whole lot of space radiation. NASA's Space Environment Testbeds (SET) mission is currently scheduled to launch…