A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth

This photo provided by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captures the Blue Marble while in Earth orbit on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. Credit: Firefly Aerospace via AP…

Space researchers build traffic light system to warn of dangerous solar storms

Credit: PAGER Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well these algorithms can prepare us for incoming space storms that…

NASA JPL prepping for full year of launches, mission milestones

NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in an artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept),…

TESS and JWST unveil disintegrating planetary interiors

Establishing a permanent lunar presence will depend on ingenuity and the moon’s own resources, researchers say

A tether covered in solar panels could boost the ISS’s orbit

NASA Kennedy ground systems prepping hardware for Artemis II and beyond

Teams at Bechtel National, Inc. use a crane to lift Module 4 into place atop the mobile launcher 2 tower chair at its park site on Jan. 3, 2025, at…

Why is one half of Mars so different to the other? ‘Marsquakes’ may have just revealed the answer

Watch doorbell camera capture rare meteorite strike in Canada

The photo provided by the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection shows fragments collected from a meteorite which fell in front of a resident’s home in Marshfield, P.E.I., Canada, in July…

US grounds SpaceX’s Starship after fiery mid-air explosion

In this handout image courtesy of Greg Blee, debris from the SpaceX Starship is seen in the sky near Providenciales, Turks and Caicos on January 16, 2025. The United States…