The Mars Moons eXploration spacecraft will fire its thrusters to maneuver into orbit around Mars (depicted in this digital ...

The Artemis II mission crew is laying eyes on parts of the moon that have never been seen in full by humans. Most recently, the four astronauts aboard Artemis II caught sight of the Orientale basin, a ...

The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

Astronomers discover two giant black holes set to collide in 100 years and detect key signals from Markarian 501.

The moon isn’t so lucky.. Astronomers estimate around 100 meteoroids the size of ping-pong balls strike the lunar surface ...

The Artemis II crew catches a crescent Earthset before losing radio signal with mission control as the Orion spacecraft flew around the far side of the moon. Credit: NASA They spent about seven hours ...

Sometimes we get a little whimsy with our science, folks. A photo of a giant lunar crater taken by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts reveals that the man in the moon is not only real, but in a very good ...

In the pursuit of powerful and stable quantum computers, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed the theory for an entirely new quantum system – based on the ...

One of the most iconic photos of our little blue planet was taken in 1968, and gave people riding along Spaceship Earth one of its first views. Now, nearly 68 years later, another breathtaking photo ...

NASA has launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Despite the moon being so nearby, we know surprisingly little about it with ...

Last December, Space.com featured a headline that read: "The US must beat China to the moon, Trump pick for NASA chief Jared Isaacman tells Senate: ‘If we make a mistake, we may never catch up.’" The ...