Spacecraft

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

As the InSight lander reports the largest-ever meteorite strikes on Mars, scientists wish it a fond farewell

NASA’s EMIT instrument has found more than 50 methane super emitters in its first few months of operation—and that’s not even its main job

A new JWST image of a star surrounded by strange, rippling spirals reveals a hidden chapter in the story of how dust spreads across the cosmos

Fresh data from the Juno probe’s flyby of Europa could help scientists learn whether this icy moon of Jupiter is habitable—or even inhabited

NASA confirms that its DART spacecraft nudged the asteroid Dimorphos into a new orbit

Revised calibrations for the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments are bedeviling researchers studying the distant universe

The celestial crash between NASA’s DART spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos is yielding spectacular pictures and data