For the first time in more than half a century, humans are preparing to leave Earth’s neighborhood and head back toward the Moon. NASA has officially set February 6 as the target launch date for...

NASA has announced the early return of astronauts from the Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first medical evacuation in the history of the orbiting laboratory. The space agency said on...

NASA has postponed the first spacewalk of 2026 after a medical issue involving one astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS), forcing the agency to halt what was expected to be a milestone operation early...

The idea of using space mirrors to illuminate Earth’s nighttime side sounds like science fiction, but a California startup wants to turn it into reality. The company, Reflect Orbital, has proposed launching thousands of mirror-equipped...

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, one of the country’s most experienced spaceflyers, was abruptly removed from SpaceX’s Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. While Russia’s space agency claims he was reassigned to a different job,...

The possibility of a major solar storm disrupting aviation, satellites, and global communication networks is once again under focus after scientists detected an unusually strong burst of radiation in Earth’s upper atmosphere. A new study...

The last Cold Moon supermoon of 2025 will rise this Thursday, offering skywatchers one more bright, oversized full moon before the year closes. It’s the third supermoon in a row and the final one until...

The idea that the US once considered nuking the Moon sounds like conspiracy fiction. But during the tense early years of the Cold War, the plan was real, documented, and nearly pursued. Known as Project...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is famous for its sideways rotation and the jokes its name inspires. But few know that “Uranus” wasn’t its original name. The planet’s first title triggered an unexpected...

A 2,300-foot space rock hidden near the Sun has renewed global concern about so-called killer asteroids, a class of near-Earth objects astronomers struggle to detect due to the Sun’s overpowering glare. The newly identified object,...