On the morning of 30 June 1908, an object from space exploded above the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia.
Both halves of this claim are well supported, and neither rests on a single study.
The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in its first minute of flight, the…
For the first time since the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s origins in the 1930s, Caltech’s hold on one of the most important institutions in American robotic space exploration is no longer automatic.
In Western Australia's outback near Exmouth, an array of parabolic dishes spread across the landscape is already tracking satellites in geostationary orbit for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
The site is called Tanis, in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota.
The claim is true, though the version of it that gets repeated most often is softer than it sounds.
An international team of researchers has identified a new fuel-efficient route between Earth and the Moon that also avoids the kind of communications blackout the Artemis II crew experienced when their spacecraft slipped behind the lunar far side in April.
Every Moon mission has to solve two problems at once: how to spend as little propellant as possible, and how to keep the spacecraft connected to Earth when lunar geometry gets in the way.
On a quiet night at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, a pulse of green laser light leaves a 3.5-meter telescope, climbs through the atmosphere, and races toward the Moon.
On September 21, 2003, a spacecraft about the size of a small bus hit Jupiter at 48.2 kilometres per second.
On September 15, 2017, Cassini ended its life exactly where mission planners had sent it: inside Saturn.
The first permanent structures on the moon will almost certainly be built by robots, not astronauts.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, military planners on both sides were operating on doctrines built for a different kind of war.
Each of the two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, carries a phonograph record.
Searching for life on other worlds has never suffered from a shortage of interesting places to look.
