Spacecraft

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected four rock samples from an ancient river delta where organisms might have thrived

The MICROSCOPE mission tested the weak equivalence principle with free-falling objects in a satellite

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of the distant universe shocked astronomers. Is the discovery of unimaginably distant galaxies a mirage or a revolution?

Technical glitches and questionable weather forecasts continue to delay liftoff for NASA’s landmark lunar mission

A problem with one of the Space Launch System’s main engines has postponed the test flight until at least September 2

A former NASA deputy administrator speaks candidly about the troubled history and radical potential of the space agency’s lunar return

The U.S. is preparing to send astronauts to the moon for the first time in 50 years

The launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission will also be the start of the first deep-space rendezvous to be conducted by a solar-sail-propelled spacecraft

When humans return to the moon, they’ll likely visit one of these 13 regions near the moon’s south pole

The Space Launch System rocket could lift off on its voyage to lunar orbit as early as late August

Long considered trivial, the effects of rocket launches and reentering space debris on global warming and ozone loss could soon become too large to ignore

Seismology has been a long-overlooked tool in planetary exploration, but the success of NASA’s InSight lander has reignited the field