Space Exploration

Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart gave employees an update in an all-hands meeting on Thursday, according to audio obtained by CNBC.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend. Saturday’s close encounter will offer astronomers the chance to study a space rock from just over 100,000 miles away. That’s less than half the distance from here to the moon. While asteroid flybys are common, NASA says a big one...

Michigan students are looking for ways to feed astronauts in space as part of a competition with the NASA HUNCH program that combines a variety of disciplines from engineering to the culinary arts.

In addition to $8.1 billion for NASA’s lunar Artemis program, Biden also aims to allocate funds for a mission to return Mars rock and soil samples.

A mostly 3D printed rocket manufactured is scheduled for its first launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The European Space Agency has been suggesting the formation of a time zone on the moon. Why do they think we need it and how exactly do they tell time on the moon?

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang.

Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. That’s more than any other planet in our solar system. Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons. The Jupiter moons were added recently to a list kept by the International Astronomical Center’s Minor Planet Center. Researchers discovered the...

The space agency says the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low,” although some pieces are expected to survive after most of it burns up upon reentry.

If you’ve ever dreamed of flying to the stratosphere, hold tight. A company is hoping to start testing balloon flights to the edge of space in early 2023.

Former Google executive Alan Eustace made history – quietly – when he broke the stratospheric skydiving record set by Felix Baumgartner. Now, he’s a board member at Space Perspective, a company that set out to make space tourism more accessible to the masses.

Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko purchased seats on a private flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, the third such flight Elon Musk’s venture has announced to date.

Marine Col. Nicole Mann and cosmonaut Anna Kikina are traveling to the International Space Station with Navy Capt. Josh Cassada and Japan Space Agency’s Koichi Wakata for a five-month mission.

The first photo from the flyby is a closeup of Europa’s equatorial region, crisscrossed by ridges, troughs and possibly an impact crater.

Artemis is NASA’s moonshot program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface of the moon by 2025.

The company’s mission on Tuesday was its first attempt to return to flight since the mid-launch failure of its LV0008 rocket on Feb. 10.

The International Space Station represents a U.S. partnership yet unaffected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

China has had some notable space successes in the past few years including sending an uncrewed mission to Mars and starting construction of its own space station.

It’s shaping up to be a busy week for Hawthorne-based aerospace company SpaceX, which is planning to launch three rockets this week.

Katherine Calvin was appointed NASA’s new Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor on Monday. She wants to improve data accessibility.