Photos of the launch and missions of America’s first space station
Recent images of our home planet, seen by crew members of the International Space Station
Astronomy is in a new era. It involves giant lasers.
Private companies have been sending herds of tiny satellites to orbit for years. Now the Space Force wants to join this very crowded party.
Humans last set foot on the moon 50 years ago. Now we’re going back, but the way we explore space has gone through some big changes.
NASA’s InSight mission was the little lander that kinda, mostly could.
NASA researchers monitor the night sky even when most of the country has a day off.
Well, well, well! Look what the Martian wind blew in.
An uncrewed capsule has circled the moon and made a historic plunge on its way home.
The question is how.
Space reporter Marina Koren on NASA’s plans to travel to the moon, Mars, and Europa—and why it is now studying UAPs
Life is an accident of space and time.
2001: A Space Odyssey is prescient, beautiful, and entirely unsatisfactory.
Every day until Sunday, December 25, this page will present a new, incredible image of our universe from one of two space telescopes.
After a successful takeoff, a crewless capsule is on its way to the moon. Where’s the fanfare?
Some of the many photos taken by observers of last night’s celestial event
Science has a lot to learn about the microbiome of astronauts.
The storied space superpower was already stalling. Then came the Ukraine war.
Beneath its frozen surface could be a salty ocean—and maybe a comfortable home for small life forms.
The beloved Hubble observatory could get the SpaceX treatment.