Space

Rep. James Comer (R-KY).

Comer suggests something ‘sinister’ behind 11 missing scientists

Molly Parks · April 20, 2026 4:13 pm

NASA’s Artemis II rocket launches a 10-day mission around the moon, traveling roughly 230,000 miles from Earth — the farthest humans have traveled, April 1, Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Gregg Newton/Getty Images)

How Trump put America back in space, and what comes next

The Artemis II crew – from left, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Pilot Victor Glover, and Commander Reid Wiseman – pause for a group photo inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home.

Artemis II crew shares lunar larks after historic journey around moon and back

Space Force General Stephen Whiting, Commander of United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), speaks during a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing, Thursday, March 26, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Russia planning to put nuclear weapons in space, US general warns

NASA Artemis Moonshot

White House orders NASA and Pentagon to develop nuclear space reactors

Keisuke Iwaya, left, CEO of a Japanese space development company, Iwaya Giken, and Takayuki Hanasaka, JTB Senior Managing Executive Officer, pose for a photo after unveiling a two-seater cabin and a balloon that the company says is capable of rising to an altitude of 15 miles, which is roughly the middle of the stratosphere, as he speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023.

Japanese company announces plans for commercial space viewing tours

Julia Johnson February 22, 2023 1:24 am

Meteorite slams into South Texas with ‘large explosion’

Luke Gentile February 17, 2023 8:25 pm

SEE IT: NASA shows sun in whole new light

Luke Gentile February 14, 2023 4:53 pm

The NASA moon rocket stands on Pad 39B before the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

China is afraid of NASA’s Artemis return to the moon

Mark Whittington February 13, 2023 6:24 am

Man captures rare ‘green comet’ passing by Earth for first time in 50,000 years

Luke Gentile February 3, 2023 6:46 pm

Green comet will be visible as it passes by Earth for first time in 50,000 years

Jack Birle February 1, 2023 3:09 pm

NASA’s Artemis program works to avoid repeating past launch disasters

Jack Birle January 30, 2023 10:30 am

This orbital diagram from CNEOSâs close approach viewer shows 2023 BUâs trajectory â in red â during its close approach with Earth on Jan. 26, 2023. The asteroid will pass about 10 times closer to Earth than the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, shown in green line.

NASA records ‘closest approach’ by asteroid

Jenny Goldsberry January 27, 2023 1:42 am

A diagram displays the structure and layers of Earth in space.

Earth’s core may have stopped spinning and changed directions: Study

Heather Hamilton January 25, 2023 2:30 pm

NASA to test revolutionary nuclear-powered rockets that reach Mars in record time

Brady Knox January 24, 2023 10:45 pm

A stock image of an asteroid.

Asteroid size of firetruck expected to buzz Earth in closest flyby in 300 years

Luke Gentile January 24, 2023 4:06 pm

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Buzz Aldrin gets married on 93rd birthday

Heather Hunter January 21, 2023 4:47 pm