Spacecraft

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

Starship, a super powerful launch system that could revolutionize access to space, soared for mere minutes—but its test flight is still being hailed as a success

The hunt for Martian life focuses on detecting organic molecules that could indicate its past existence. Are our instruments up to the task?

We now know that the first galaxies in our universe formed shockingly fast, thanks to the latest results from the James Webb Space Telescope

A candidate “rogue” supermassive black hole may weigh as much as 20 million suns and has sparked a trail of star formation that is 200,000 light-years long

The imagery offers a rare view of the ice giant’s ring system, bright moons and dynamic atmosphere

A half-kilogram’s worth of samples gathered by NASA’s Perseverance rover for eventual return to Earth holds weighty implications for life on Mars