The Moon is leaving. Not dramatically, not catastrophically, and not on any timescale that will inconvenience anyone reading this — but it is leaving, and the going rate is 3.8 centimetres per year.
Both Voyager spacecraft are now operating with the smallest sets of active science instruments in their nearly 49-year history.
Apollo 11 launched on 16 July 1969 with a 70-pound guidance computer and a flight program that was already physically committed to copper wire.
NASA's Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement.
In a clean room in French Guiana, technicians are preparing a spacecraft called Smile — the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer — for launch.
The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has returned a fresh portrait of one of the Red Planet's most dramatic flood-carved regions, revealing a…
Two announcements bookend the most recent stretch of the dark-matter hunt, and the order in which they arrived matters.
The phenomenon has a name. The author and space philosopher Frank White coined the phrase "the Overview Effect" after an experience on an airplane led him to a…
A solar structure that should have exhausted itself in days kept broadcasting for nearly three weeks — and the implication is that our models of how electrons survive inside coronal magnetic fields may be fundamentally incomplete.
At Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, a Vega-C rocket is being prepared for flight VV29. Its passenger is Smile, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link…
On the same week NASA opened bidding on its eighth Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order, the Houston-based lander company Intuitive Machines announced it was buying Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd.
Smile is not just another space-weather satellite waiting for launch. It is a joint European-Chinese science mission being prepared for flight on Vega-C from…
Excessive politeness gets coded as a virtue. But the pattern of apologizing for things outside your control, thanking the same cashier three times, or saying sorry when a stranger bumps into you isn't usually about good manners at all.
Russia announced on May 12 that the long-delayed Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile had completed a successful test from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and would enter combat duty later in the year.
The conventional read on a person who keeps a dead parent's reading glasses in the drawer, or a kitchen drawer full of utensils nobody has used since 2004, is that they have a clutter problem.
The neatest route to the moon is not always the one that looks neatest on a diagram.
