Spacecraft

NASA has reversed course on plans to curtail the New Horizons spacecraft’s planetary science studies following a rebellion among the mission’s leaders

At times, the enormous BlueWalker 3 telecommunications satellite is brighter than some of the most iconic stars visible from Earth

Black holes in the extraordinarily distant cosmos are out of tune with their host galaxies, offering insights into their formation

Conspiracy theories and, relatedly, antigovernment sentiment could prove toxic to any factual and scientific discussion of unidentified anomalous phenomena

Thousands of spacecraft circle Earth. Seeing them from the ground is surprisingly easy—and a lot of fun

There is a long U.S. legacy of plutocrat-funded pseudoscience. Congress just embraced it

The successful lunar landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission makes India only the fourth country to achieve the feat

Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in nearly a half-century, was the vanguard of a planned series of lunar probes

In the latest chapter of an ongoing “moon rush,” Russia’s Luna-25 mission will attempt the nation’s first lunar landing in nearly 50 years

The Luna 25 spacecraft will attempt to land at the lunar south pole for the first time in a hunt for valuable water ice

A new view of a record-shattering distant star shows it to be twice as hot as our sun and likely accompanied by a stellar companion

Scholars look to understand how Americans view space activities