Space News

A fuel leak interrupted NASA's launch countdown for its new moon rocket early Monday, reappearing in the same place that saw seepage during a dress rehearsal back in the spring.

NASA officials say they are keeping open the possibility of attempting another launch of the Artemis 1 mission as soon as Sept. 2 as they continue to study a pair of issues that scrubbed the initial launch attempt Aug. 2...

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 30, to discuss the flight test of the agency's mega Moon rocket and uncrewed Orion spacecraft, currently at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...

AFRL is looking to shore up its technical workforce and to partner with private companies, said Col. Jeremy Raley, head of the space vehicles directorate The post New head of AFRL space vehicles looking for talent to hel...

Satellites owned by private companies have played an unexpectedly important role in the war in Ukraine.

NASA delivers a free online Artemis 1 comic book titled, "The Adventures of Commander Moonikin Campos and Friends."

Space weather watchers observed a series of powerful flares between Aug. 27 and Aug. 29, the most powerful of which registered as a moderate M8-class flare.

A new study may have found the original location of the 30,000-year-old work of art and researchers gain insight to the Gravettian people because of it.

Lunar regolith is a layer of loosely-packed rocky grains deposited on the lunar surface, whose physical and chemical properties are important for deciphering the geologic history and formulating lunar spacecraft design. ...

A test flight of NASA's powerful new Moon rocket may be possible on Friday, officials said, after the US space agency scrubbed Monday's launch because of an engine issue.

When NASA's Artemis 1 lunar mission takes off on August 29, on board will be four science experiments--including one from Canada.

Did Schrodinger have an actual cat? Did Newton invent the cat door? Meet the feline friends behind these and other legendary names.

Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the decades of work it took Artemis 1 to get this far, while NASA's Bill Nelson said the agency will address the issue that led to the scrub Monday (Aug. 29).

With the help of artificial intelligence, an international research team led by ETH Zurich has explored the moon's permanently shadowed regions. The information they have obtained about the area's surface properties will...

See the young moon over Mercury in the evening sky just after sunset tonight (Aug. 29).

When astronomers use radio telescopes to gaze into the night sky, they typically see elliptical-shaped galaxies, with twin jets blasting from either side of their central supermassive black hole. But every once in a whil...

An international team of astronomers led by members of the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), have discovered a rare celestial jewel--a so-called Planetary...

A fuel leak and then an engine problem during final liftoff preparations led NASA to call off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket Monday on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard.

NASA scrubbed the first attempt to launch its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft Aug. 29 after a problem with a hydrogen bleed line with one of the rocket's four core stage engines. The post First Artemis 1 ...

An engine cooling issue on NASA's giant new rocket for deep-space exploration forced the agency to call off the booster's much-anticipated launch debut early Monday (Aug. 29).

China's main space contractor plans to revamp a highly successful, 30-year-old Long March rocket model to adapt to the trend towards reusability in the launch sector. The post China plans to make aging Long March rocket ...

Another test of general relativity shows that Einstein's theory holds up, and a phenomenon it predicted could be used to investigate the mysterious force known as dark energy, which drives the accelerating expansion of t...