With NASA's Artemis 1 mission launching to the moon this month, Space.com is taking a look at what we know about the moon and why we care. Join us for our Moon Week special report in the countdown to… [+8688 chars]
Late last month, Russia announced it would withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024. Space experts have been fretting about this possibility since the start of Russias war in Ukraine… [+10286 chars]
Comment on this story Stunning images taken by NASAs James Webb Space Telescope show Jupiter in new glory. Fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system more than tw… [+4700 chars]
How big can a star grow? Not as huge as we imagined, it turns out. The sharpest images ever taken of the biggest known star indicate the upper limit to a sun's mass is probably a lot smaller than pr… [+4128 chars]
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman"and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space ." We all learned Newton's laws i… [+5217 chars]
Enlarge/ NASA's Space Launch System Rocket at LC-39B, preparing to lift off at 8:33 am ET on August 29th, 2022. 28 with 25 posters participating President Eisenhower signed the law establishing the… [+4197 chars]
By zooming in on the survey image, you can sail through this space as if you are on the spaceship that Carl Sagan traveled in on the show Cosmos. The deeper you go, the more you see: So many clouds … [+1265 chars]
ByEuropean Space Agency (ESA)August 23, 2022 Data from ESAs Mars Express and NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have been used to create the first detailed global map of hydrated mineral deposits on … [+11199 chars]
NASA has released a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of gala… [+3964 chars]
ByAmerican Institute of PhysicsAugust 23, 2022 The unmanned Skylab station was launched into orbit by a Saturn V booster. The Saturn V rocket carried humans to the moon and remains the most powerful… [+2720 chars]
To Martin Rees, the United Kingdoms Astronomer Royal, AGN feedback offered a natural way to connect the relatively tiny black hole to the galaxy at large. Two decades earlier, in the 1970s, Rees corr… [+5318 chars]
A recent research said the Sun has reached its middle age. The Sun is the source of life on Earth. It radiates light and heat, or solar energy, which makes it possible for various species to flouris… [+1766 chars]
