India joins an elite club as first to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole

NEW DELHI — India on Wednesday made history as it became the first country in the…

What explains the race among nations to reach the moon’s south pole?

India’s space agency is attempting to land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole, a mission…

We might have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars nearly fifty years ago

The Viking lander experiments In the mid-1970s, NASA sent two Viking landers to the surface of…

Rock that punched hole in New Jersey house confirmed to be 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite

A metallic-looking rock that smashed through the roof of a residential home in New Jersey’s Hopewell…

Wall of Green Lasers Blankets Sky in Hawai’i, Likely From Chinese Satellite

Last month, a camera from a telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i’s tallest mountain, captured something eerie:…

NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success

NASA says its mission to knock an asteroid off course — a test of planetary defense…

SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time

U.S. startup SpinLaunch — the company that aims to disrupt the rapidly-growing satellite launch industry by…

‘Shiny, sparkly object’ in James Webb space image

The picture, presented to the world in July by US President Joe Biden, shows a fantastically deep…

Dimorphos: Nasa flies spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit

The American space agency’s Dart probe has smashed into an asteroid, destroying itself in the process.…

Move over, Bruce Willis: NASA is shoving an asteroid to test planetary defense

Nuclear bombs. That’s the go-to answer for incoming space objects like asteroids and comets, as far…

The largest commercial communications array ever has just launched. Expect to see it – it’s huge and bright

On the weekend SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a giant satellite into space. Called BlueWalker 3,…

High-flying experiment: Do stem cells grow better in space?

Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether…