Here then, is some background information to ... sunlight which has been bounced through space no fewer than three times: reflected first off of Earth, then out to the moon ...

Elon Musk is now considered a “special government employee” by the White House. But exactly what kind of access that provides ...

A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Mars Adventure by Brend ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue ...

Watch as the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft travels to the moon in this epic time-lapse from flight day 1. Credit: NASA | mash ...

could detect the space rocks astronomers haven’t been able to see in the past. Currently, there are no other known large asteroids that have more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth, according ...

Scientists measure this faint cosmic microwave background radiation to understand how our universe began and evolved. They detect it as a uniform, low-level microwave signal coming from every ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide ... Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky ...

An astronaut has captured jaw-dropping pictures of cities from space. American spaceman Don Pettit picks out the bright ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular ...

A photographer on Earth has captured an incredible telescope image of NASA astronaut Suni Williams outside of the ...