Space Exploration

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back spectacular views of the lunar sunset

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams had been “stuck” at the International Space Station since June 6, 2024, after Boeing’s Starliner, the vehicle they rode to get there, ran into multiple hardware problems

The EPA rolls back regulations, NASA launches two exciting missions, and we discuss the surprising way whale urine moves nitrogen across the ocean.

Top advisers in NASA’s Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid a government-wide downsizing effort

For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the moon

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days

In this news roundup, we cover outbreak updates, microbes in space and a brain turned to glass.

After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft

The question of whether aliens can detect our modern civilization depends on what signs they’re looking for—and, crucially, their distance from us

The overly sterile environment of the International Space Station is missing important microbes, a new detailed map shows. If we want to live off Earth, we may need to take more of our bacterial friends with us

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander is planned to touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6

Several companies have contracts with NASA to design private space habitats to replace the International Space Station once it’s gone