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

"The Pentagon has not received any orders with regards to Venezuela," said Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon Friday evening, according to CNN.

Pentagon’s UFO office has received hundreds of new reports

Associated Press December 16, 2022 9:01 pm

NASA and Russia's space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, on Dec. 14 on the International Space Station because of an apparent coolant leak from an attached space capsule.

Micrometeorite strike to blame for Russian space capsule coolant leak: Officials

Associated Press December 15, 2022 2:52 pm

A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Geminid meteor shower over an Orthodox church on the local cemetery near the village of Zagorie, some 110 km (69 miles) west of Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 13, 2017.

Catch a glimpse of the strongest meteor shower of the year Tuesday night

Julia Johnson December 13, 2022 8:56 pm

This photo made available by NASA was taken during the first drive of the Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021. A NASA rover on Mars by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed overhead and caught the sound. Scientists released the first-of-its-kind audio Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.

Red devil: NASA rover captures first sound of dust devil on Mars

Associated Press December 13, 2022 4:57 pm

NASA's new moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B hours ahead of a planned launch at the Kennedy Space Center Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

NASA’s Artemis I to splash down after historic moon mission

Heather Hunter December 11, 2022 5:31 pm

Army astronauts troll Navy for special uniforms ahead of huge college football matchup

Misty Severi December 10, 2022 10:38 pm

K-Pop star to join SpaceX mission around the moon

Associated Press December 9, 2022 5:29 pm

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag during lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background. This picture was taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.

Fifty years after Apollo 17, why have we not gone back to the moon?

Mark Whittington December 9, 2022 5:10 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

China racing to beat the US in a looming lunar gold rush

Jamie McIntyre December 1, 2022 10:40 pm

Stunning pictures from NASA’s Orion spacecraft show moon eclipsing Earth

Jack Birle November 28, 2022 7:55 pm

NASA official predicts humans will live on the moon ‘this decade’

Ryan King November 21, 2022 9:39 pm

A woman observes the night sky for Leonid Meteors at an observatory near the village of Progled south of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.

Meteor mania: Leonid meteor shower to reach peak activity Thursday night

Julia Johnson November 17, 2022 11:11 pm