Spacecraft

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

Radar images from the Zhurong rover reveal clues to the history of a largely unexplored region

The DART spacecraft has purposefully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, hopefully changing its orbit by a few minutes, in a milestone test of future planetary defense techniques

The James Webb Space Telescope’s snapshots of a giant world orbiting another star show that the observatory is performing even better than expected and that its best exoplanet images are yet to come