The Lyrid meteor shower will dazzle the night sky this week. Here’s how to watch
(EDITORS NOTE: Multiple exposures were combined to produce this image.) Startrails are seen during the Lyrid meteor shower over Michaelskapelle on April 21, 2020 in…
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How do astronomers find distant planets … if we can’t see them?
Enlarge this image An illustration of the GAIA telescope, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013. Using GAIA data, astronomers can observe a…
NASA website axes a pledge to land a woman and a person of color on the moon
NASA engineers work alongside the tip of a solid rocket booster for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at…
This astronaut spent over 100 days in space. Here’s how he says that affected him
Ground personnel help U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer after he landed in a remote area outside Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. Sergei Ilnitsky/European Pressphoto Agency…
2 NASA astronauts return to Earth after an unexpectedly long mission in space
In this image taken from video provided by NASA, a SpaceX capsule floats in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, after landing off…
Crew arrives on ISS to replace astronauts ‘stranded’ in space for 9 months
This image made from video by NASA shows astronauts waving after a four-person crew arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, March 16. AP/NASA…
NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts to the ISS
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launches from the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2025 in Cape…
Failure is an option. Here’s why some new space ventures go sideways
The booster of SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship is recaptured during a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Eric Gay/AP hide caption…
SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Nearly…
NASA’s upcoming telescope launch aims to address some existential questions
Concept art for the SPHEREx Spectro-Photometer  NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption toggle caption NASA/JPL-Caltech Sometimes, space missions aim to answer the simple, quotidian questions we ask ourselves…