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

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks to the press after a confirmation hearing for Air Force General Charles Brown in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 11, 2023 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Tuberville vows to fight Biden’s Space Command decision: ‘This is absolutely not over’

Samantha-Jo Roth July 31, 2023 10:28 pm

FILE - The flag of the U.S. Space Command is presented during a ceremony for the establishment of the command on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, bucking Trump’s Alabama pick

Mike Brest July 31, 2023 8:14 pm

Next three meteor showers peak over weekends, two of which peak Sunday night

Asher Notheis July 30, 2023 5:46 pm

Two supermoons due in August

Jenny Goldsberry July 30, 2023 2:38 pm

NASA and Defense Department partner to launch first nuclear-powered rocket

Rachel Schilke July 27, 2023 6:15 pm

UFO witnesses testify about technology that ‘defies current material’ on Earth

Julia Johnson July 26, 2023 7:15 pm

NASAâs James Webb Space Telescope captures a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light.

NASA releases Webb telescope images showing stars forming

Jack Birle July 26, 2023 5:18 pm

WATCH LIVE: House committee to explore UFOs through former Pentagon officials’ recounts

Eden Villalovas July 26, 2023 1:32 pm

Oversight hearing on UFOs will ‘open the floodgates’

Julia Johnson July 26, 2023 10:00 am

An artistâs concept portrays the star PDS 70 and its inner protoplanetary disk.

Webb telescope discovery may help understand how water got on Earth

Jack Birle July 25, 2023 8:37 pm

Inside NASA’s asteroid watcher program

Brady Knox July 23, 2023 11:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 1984 photo made available by NASA, astronaut Bruce McCandless uses a nitrogen jet-propelled backpack, a Manned Manuevering Unit, outside the space shuttle Challenger. Astronaut wannabe Rachel Zimmerman-Brachman, a public engagement specialist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says that isolation is a lot like astronaut training. (NASA via AP)

Scientists call for further research into sex in space

Brady Knox July 19, 2023 10:04 pm