In the early morning hours of April 3, 1975, shortly after a violent thunderstorm swept through southeastern North Carolina, police officers in the town of Lumberton began reporting something ...

This reason is enough to delay the Artemis II mission further, says a Mexican nuclear physicist to the Starlust team.

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

On 1962, NASA launched the first Orbiting Solar Observatory. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Eight of these satellites were launched between 1962 and 1975 to study the ...

NASA has scrubbed its plans to land on the moon in 2027 due to technical issues with the Artemis III mission, pushing the ...

A new method of predicting when a superflare will erupt from the sun suggests that we are in the middle of such a period now — and that could be bad news for the Artemis 2 astronauts.

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission has been delayed until at least March due to technical issues. A hydrogen leak was discovered in the Space Launch System rocket during a prelaunch test. A subsequent test ...

NASA vs SpaceX rockets represent two powerful approaches shaping modern space exploration. One reflects decades of government-led engineering built for deep-space reliability, while the other pushes ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The space rock known as "2026 CC" measures ...

NASA's Artemis II rolls from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. (Photo by Mauricio Paiz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Updated, Feb. 5, 2026: exact launch times and dates in ...

NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site. The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted for no earlier than Feb ...