Spacecraft

Much of North America can witness a delightful astronomical event on the evening of December 7 as the moon blocks out Mars

I’ve been working on space elevators for almost 20 years, and though we still have issues to solve, we are getting closer to making them reality

Elon Musk’s Starlink and other satellite sources of light pollution and orbital debris should face an environmental review, the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds

The Orion spacecraft passed just 130 kilometers above the lunar surface during a mission-critical engine burn

An investigation by agency historian finds no evidence explicitly linking former director James Webb with anti-LGBT+ actions

We are drawn to breathtaking images of the heavens, but there is beauty in the numbers those images hold

The first flight test of the world’s most powerful rocket will send an uncrewed spacecraft to lunar orbit and back

Around the world, researchers are betting that beamed power from space could be the next big thing for clean energy on Earth

Divers working on a television documentary were searching for a downed World War II aircraft when they instead discovered the NASA artifact

Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it

China’s Tiangong orbital outpost will host more than 1,000 experiments, some of which will augment results from the International Space Station

SpaceX and the entrepreneur Jared Isaacman are pursuing a plan to rescue the iconic Hubble Space Telescope from a fiery plunge into Earth’s atmosphere