What does it take to call home from the Moon?
When NASA’s Artemis II crew swung around the Moon in April, the world watched in extraordinary detail and a breakthrough laser communications system was the reason why. Bolted to the…
US Space Force wants space-based missile interceptors for Golden Dome ready by 2028
The United States Space Force has created a new program to develop space-based missile interceptors, with the goal of being able to demonstrate their capability by 2028.
Is Venus volcanically active? Big Hawaiian eruption in 2022 could help scientists find out
Evidence suggests that Venus is still volcanically active, and new data about a big eruption in Hawaii a few years ago could help scientists find out for sure.
How Do Close Binary Stars Form?
Our Sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers throughout the galaxy. But roughly half of Sun-like…
Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars
1 Min Read Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars PIA26722 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Odyssey Team Celebrates on a… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content…
What’s Up: May 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Shooting stars before dawn, a brilliant meetup between the Moon…
Meet the legendary heroes and villains of ‘Masters of the Universe’ (video)
‘When we started visualizing this world, we wanted to do right by the fans’
Artemis III Moon Rocket Core Stage on the Move
NASA/Glenn Benson Teams move the core stage, or largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA’s Artemis III mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s…
NASA Welcomes Morocco as 64th Artemis Accords Signatory
Credit: NASA The Kingdom of Morocco signed the Artemis Accords on April 29th during a ceremony in the country’s capital, Rabat, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible…
A New Way to Plan Trajectories to Asteroids
There are tens of thousands of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that represent some of the most easily accessible resources in the solar system. If we can get to them at least.…