Space

The largest supermoon of 2024 will reach its peak illumination this week with a chance that it could have an orange, jack-o-lantern-like color, WKRC reported Friday.

A comet that has not been visible from Earth for more than 80,000 years was spotted in the skies over the weekend, and may come again in mid-October.

Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and CEO of Tesla, is preparing to send his Starships to Mars in a couple of years.

A rocket belonging to a Chinese civilian aerospace manufacturer crashed into a mountain after accidentally launching Sunday, the company announced.

NASA astronauts have been left stranded in space as the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that they traveled to orbit on is facing several issues.

A “once-in-a-lifetime” cosmic event that may “fuel the next generation of scientists” is set to occur anytime between June and September.

Officials say a powerful solar storm will hit Earth on Friday and its arrival could cause infrastructure problems.

A Chinese/European joint X-ray telescope mission is allowing humans to see the universe in widescreen — like a lobster.

Russia on Wednesday used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to block a resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan to ban nuclear weapons in outer space.

A “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity to see the light from a star that exploded 3,000 years ago is coming this year, NASA officials say.

Several New York school districts will be letting students out early or stay home altogether on Monday due to the upcoming solar eclipse.

There are a few things to know as multitudes of people gear up to experience the total solar eclipse on Monday.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Tuesday that it is “seriously considering” building a nuclear power plant on the moon in collaboration with the communist government of China.

NASA says a total solar eclipse will be visible on April 8, a view that is sure to awe Americans across the nation.

A SpaceX crew returned to Earth following a six-day delay at the International Space Station (ISS), and Florida locals heard a “sonic boom.”

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has broken the world record for the most cumulative time spent in space, Russia’s space agency reported.

The failed Peregrine lunar lander will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere late Thursday and burn up on re-entry somewhere over the South Pacific.

The Astrobotic company’s historic lunar mission was canceled on Monday due to a malfunction throwing a wrench in plans just after launch.

Cape Canaveral is seeing final preparations put in place ahead of the planned launch Monday of a lander destined for the moon, a first in more than half a century since the Apollo project made history.

The largest solar flare in years occurred Thursday, temporarily knocking out radio communications on Earth.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s vision for the future involves people living in cylindrical space stations, he recently revealed.

An unprecedented “enormous dark hole” has opened in the sun’s surface and spewed streams of “unusually fast radiation” directly towards Earth.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket was launched for a second time on Saturday but ended up exploding, USA Today reported.

A rarely-seen exploding “devil comet” over three times the size of Mount Everest will light up Earth’s skies come April.

Scientists are working to make human reproduction possible in space — an effort they view as an obvious next step as billionaires push to establish colonies on Mars and Venus.

Four astronauts have arrived home to planet Earth after working for six months at the international space station.

Two of the world’s most advanced astronomical telescopes, the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, have been temporarily shut down due to a cyberattack.

A website to provide official declassified information on UFOs, including pictures and videos of sightings, for the public to access was launched Thursday by the Pentagon.

Russia’s unmanned robot lander, Luna-25, crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported.

A lunar lander craft blasted off on Russia´s first moon mission in near 50 years, racing to get ahead of an Indian spacecraft.

Officials from Australia’s space agency announced that a cylindrical piece of space debris found on a remote beach is a rocket part belonging to the Indian government.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin suffered a rocket engine explosion during testing last month, when its BE-4 rocket engine detonated about 10 seconds into the test. The explosion destroyed the engine and severely damaged the company’s testing infrastructure.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as the dominant force in the rocket-launch market, handling a staggering 88 percent of customer flights from American launch sites in the first half of 2023. One former Air Force space operations officer explains, “The fact is that the competition can’t field anything right now and that makes SpaceX a de facto monopoly.”

Europe’s Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday, to study two of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.

Four people were locked inside a Mars simulation on Sunday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and will remain there for over a year.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, designed to ferry astronauts to the moon, has been reportedly found by an audit to be $6 billion over budget and six years behind its original schedule.