Spacecraft

The huge watery cloud spurting from Enceladus could carry the ingredients for life farther into space than previously known

Specialists speculate that a Chinese spacecraft that spent nine months in Earth’s orbit might be similar to a U.S. space plane, and it could have research or military uses

White dwarfs, Earth-sized exoplanets, early galaxies and even Saturn’s moon Enceladus are on the agenda for JWST’s second year in space, but exomoons and others miss out

Launching a fleet of space telescopes is not the solution to the Starlink problem

Hints of life on distant worlds will come from signals pioneered by NASA’s jumbo space telescope

Hints of water vapor on a world called GJ 486 b could just as well come from the planet’s host star

Delays and budgetary overruns are causing many to worry that NASA’s ambitious planetary science program is at a breaking point

SpaceX’s Starship launch site in southern Texas is now the subject of a lawsuit after the vehicle’s first flight caused concerning damage

New results from a U.A.E. orbiter suggest Mars’s moons may be pieces of the planet. A Japanese mission will tell us for sure

NASA is again sending people to the moon. The agency must revamp its safety reporting procedures to protect everyone involved

With an apparent crash, the HAKUTO-R mission from the private space exploration company ispace has joined a long list of failed moon landers

A gas giant planet’s youthful glow could explain major differences between its four largest satellites