Space Exploration

China’s Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from asteroid Kamo’oalewa and return them to Earth

The space agency has put out a call for its Moon & Mars Exploration Analog, which recreates the challenges of a long-duration space mission

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface

Inside the quest to rescue NASA’s aging Swift observatory

Mars researchers are wrestling with the potential costs of a flashy new NASA mission to the Red Planet

Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied another space rock up close

A cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts

SpaceX’s IPO—the largest in history—has out-of-this-world implications for AI, space commerce and extraterrestrial exploration

Reusable rockets and Starlink made Elon Musk’s company dominant in spaceflight. Its record valuation leans on making Starship flights routine and orbital AI data centers real

This tiny robot might look like a high-tech hamster ball, but it could hasten lunar exploration

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa, on a mission that would bring China’s first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027

NASA’s Artemis III crew includes three NASA astronauts and one European Space Agency astronaut