Stories by Hanneke Weitering

A communications glitch between the observatory and its launch vehicle forced the delay, NASA officials say

The 90-year-old Star Trek actor is now the oldest person to fly in space

The pioneering astronomer and ‘mother of Hubble’ paved the way for revolutionary space observatories

The spacecraft could ferry astronauts to the moon’s surface as early as 2024

Off-world Bose–Einstein condensates might measure spacetime ripples better than any ground-based technique

Crew determines leak is in Russian segment of orbiting laboratory

Astronomers have found iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the Jupiter-sized world KELT-9b, the hottest known exoplanet

The Vice President provided more details on the Trump administration’s controversial plans to create a new space-focused military branch

To be successful, scientists searching for extraterrestrial beings may need to revisit some fundamental assumptions about the nature of life itself

The federal government's five-point strategy is a roadmap for dealing with threatening near-Earth objects

Volcanic eruptions could have created a temporary lunar atmosphere billions of years ago

The condition of the world’s second-largest radio telescope remains unclear after being battered by the storm

From chemical changes to thermal burns, a rundown on exactly what staring at the sun can do

Approach of the 2,000-foot space rock is closest for such a large object since 2004  

January 27 marks the 50th anniversary of the first major, deadly disaster for the U.S. space program

The 95-year-old former astronaut and senator has been in hospital for more than a week

A new class of stellar objects could be causing ultrabright repeating outbursts from old, quiescent galaxies

In a new op-ed, the President of the United States reiterated his plan to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s.

Scientists spotted the space rock two days before its flyby 

The spacecraft's closest-ever swoop over Jupiter's clouds offers a new view of the giant planet's north pole

Astronomers say ultradiffuse or “fluffy” Dragonfly 44 shouldn’t be able to hold itself together with so few stars 

Evidence of additional mini outbursts leading up to the so-called classical nova provides the first direct evidence for the nova hibernation hypothesis, which suggests a cyclical evolution of such stars