Space Exploration

New satellite data come up dry as the search for lunar ice continues

Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher turned (reluctant) astronaut in the upcoming film adaptation of Project Hail Mary, a science fiction novel by author Andy Weir

NASA is planning to roll its moon mission rocket back out later this month, with an April 1 target launch date

China and the U.S. are in a high-stakes race to build permanent lunar outposts. Can both nations coexist on the moon?

An obscure lunar region called Rimae Bode is emerging as a high-priority landing site for China’s first crewed moon mission

U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built

New insights into a tiny, tough microbe have huge implications for the search for life beyond Earth

The announcement that NASA will rejigger Artemis III not to land on the moon in 2027 came after the agency’s Artemis II mission encountered problems, delaying its launch

This disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field

A surprising FDA reversal on Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, early promise from a universal inhaled vaccine, and a desert fossil find that is reshaping spinosaurid history.

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist