The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket sits on Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral at sunset. This will be ULA’s fifth launch for the Amazon Leo broadband satellite constellation.
United Launch Alliance launched its latest Atlas 5 rocket, which carried a batch of 29 Amazon Leo satellites to low Earth orbit. The mission was the largest and heaviest payload carried to orbit by an Atlas 5 rocket to date, according to ULA.
From the ground to low Earth orbit, the Artemis 2 launch became a shared moment across the planet and beyond.
Venus returns as a brilliant evening star in 2026, with dazzling conjunctions, peak brightness and stunning views through the summer.
Data from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander casts doubt on the decades-old view of the moon as divided between a hotter near side and cooler far side.
An Atlas V launched 29 of Amazon's internet satellites — collectively the heaviest load the rocket has ever lofted — on Saturday morning (April 4).
The Artemis 2 astronauts snapped a gorgeous photo of their home planet recently as they sped away from it and toward the moon.
We’re getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if we’re looking at an Earth analog somewhere else in the galaxy, we have to directly image it too. That’s a job for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a planned space-based telescope whose primary job is to do precisely that. But even capturing a picture and a planet and getting spectral readings of its atmospheric chemistry still isn’t enough, according to a new paper available in pre-print on arXiv by Kaz Gary of Ohio State and their co-authors. HWO will need to figure out how much a planet weighs first.
NASA's Artemis Program seeks to place American boots close to the moon's south pole.
Love Doctor Who? Then you'll be over the moon that two previously lost episodes, The Nightmare Begins and Devil's Planet, have been recovered. Here's how to watch them wherever you are.
New observations reveal that permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles might contain less water ice than astronauts were hoping for.
Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio signals from their extremities.
After an action-packed first two days, Flight Day 3 may bring a more relaxed pace for the Artemis 2 moon astronauts.
Arcturus, the Spring Star, is on its way up in the east. Vega, the Summer Star, rises later in the evening. Jupiter shines high toward the southwest.
Image: In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures this image of Earth’s only natural satellite.
Image: A pair of planet-forming discs
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Artemis 2's Orion capsule aced a critical engine burn this evening (April 2) that sent it from Earth orbit outward toward the moon.
At 06:25 p.m. EDT (03:25 p.m. PDT) on April 1st, the Artemis II mission lifted off from the historic Launch Pad-39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-person crew - consisting of Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), and mission specialists Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen - began the ten-day journey that would take them around the Moon and back to Earth. This mission is the first time astronauts will travel beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and will serve as a "dress rehearsal" for future missions to the lunar surface.
Some airplane passengers had the best seats in the house during NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket launch. Here are some of my favorite videos captured from the sky.
Because there's more to extra-terrestrial life than humans with prosthetics stuck to their foreheads.
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