The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying PUNCH successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the SPHEREx and the PUNCH space missions late on Tuesday ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...

Uranus has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – NASA’s latest space missions are underway which will study everything from the origins of the universe to the atmosphere around the Sun. The observatories launched ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost witnessed Earth blocking out the Sun from its point of view on the Moon, while we experienced a lunar ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...