Science Feb 22 Private lander touches down on the moon but is sending a weak signal The lander’s choreographed descent was the first for the U.S. since 1972, when Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the last bootprints in the desolate gray dust.
Nation Feb 21 A private U.S. moon lander has reached low lunar orbit, a day ahead of attempting to land On Thursday, flight controllers in Houston will lower the spacecraft's orbit and attempt a landing near the moon's south pole.
Science Feb 19 Quasar with black hole at its center may be brightest object in the universe, astronomers say This distant quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun, and its black hole is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun.
Science Feb 01 Skyscraper-size asteroid to pass within 2 million miles of Earth poses no threat It won't be back our way again until 2032, but it will be a much more distant encounter, staying 45 million miles away.
Science Jan 31 WATCH: NASA celebrates Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s legacy after final flight The space agency announced last week that the 4-pound chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage, and its mission is officially over.
Science Jan 09 First human moon landing in over 50 years delayed to 2026 The news came barely an hour after a U.S. company abandoned its own attempt to land on the moon because of a fuel leak.
Science Jan 08 Moon landing attempt by private company abandoned after ‘critical’ fuel leak A crippling fuel leak forced a U.S. company on Tuesday to give up on the first U.S. moon landing attempt in more than 50 years.
Science Dec 29 U.S. military launches space plane on secretive, multi-year mission The Space Force's reusable, robotic craft is carrying classified experiments. There's no one on board. It's the seventh flight since its debut in 2010.
Science Dec 21 International astronaut to join future NASA moon landing mission NASA has included international astronauts on trips to space for decades. A Canadian has been selected to fly around the moon a year or so from now with three U.S. astronauts.
Science Dec 19 NASA features orange tabby cat in first video sent by laser from deep space The 15-second ultra high-definition video was beamed to Earth from NASA's Psyche spacecraft, 19 million miles away.