Grab your binoculars and set your alarm. For the first time in 18 years, five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — will be sequentially aligned and visible at dawn throughout this month. MORE
55 Million per Passenger The trip was brokered by the Houston, Texas-based startup Axiom Space, which seeks to book rocket rides, provide all the necessary training, and coordinate flights to the ISS for anyone who can MORE
“Along with Ingenuity, intrepid helicopter Wing Man” The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science campaigns on the MORE
The U.S. government hasn’t comprehensively studied UFOs in decades — but not all ufologists are excited about a new Pentagon investigative office. The U.S. government is finally getting back into the UFO business. And depending on MORE
Oops. Schedule change. NASA said Jan. 1 it would wait a day before beginning the process of tensioning the five-layer sunshield, getting it into its final form and ensuring the layers are separated from each MORE
An anxiety-ridden launch that’s been decades in the making On Christmas Day, NASA is gifting astronomers one of the greatest presents it can give by launching the most powerful space telescope ever created. Called the James MORE
Just released from Ars Technica, the James Webb space telescope’s “no earlier than” launch date will slip from December 18 to at least December 22 after an “incident” occurred during processing operations at the launch MORE
A partial lunar eclipse is on the way, taking place overnight on November 18th and 19th, when the Moon slips into Earth’s shadow for a couple of hours. Weather permitting, the eclipse will be visible MORE
The next astronauts to return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon won’t be able use a crucial system on their trip home next month: the space potty. SpaceX’s toilet on its Crew Dragon Endeavour will MORE
The James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to Hubble, is mired in controversy over its namesake. In 1999, Karen Knierman picked up a free mug at her first big astronomy conference, just before she MORE
Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight MORE
NASA announced Friday it would partner with SpaceX as its sole contractor for a human landing system for its Artemis missions to return humans to the moon. The Starship lander was one of three teams MORE
Our discussion will open around 3 p.m.; The actual landing will happen 3:30ish…. And please, if you plan to bring food, NASA requires we eat only red foods or dry-as-desert foods or some mixture of MORE
On the surface, Mars presents itself as a world on the verge of inhospitality. Average temperatures that hover around negative 81 degrees. A thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere sometimes rendered opaque by planet-wide dust storms that can even MORE