Tag: space

Earth isn’t the only place where bad weather affects space flights. The weather on Mars can also be tricky, causing problems for the Ingenuity helicopter.

An issue with NASA’s Swift Observatory has forced it to suspend science operations and enter safe mode while the team investigates.

The departure of an uncrewed SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft from the ISS, which had been planned for this week, had to be delayed until this weekend.

Webb is set to arrive at its new home on Monday: A location almost one million miles away called L2, or the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point.

Check out the highlights from SpaceX’s spectacular night launch on Tuesday in which it deployed another 49 satellites for its Starlink internet service.

This week, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon craft will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) carrying supplies and scientific experiments back to Earth.

As NASA looks toward expanding its crewed trips to space, the agency has voiced concerns over a possible lack of astronauts to help fulfill the missions.

Exoplanets come in many sizes, and sometimes they also come in unusual shapes – like this planet the shape of a rugby ball.

Citizen scientists have helped comb through data from a NASA telescope to identify a gas giant planet located 379 light-years away.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a spectacular pair of images showing the dramatic Flame Nebula as seen by a radio telescope.