May 2026 will feature a rare micromoon and a blue moon. Learn what these celestial events are and when to see them.

A small space rock, 2024 PT5, is fascinating scientists with its Earth-like orbit. Researchers now suggest it might be a piece of the Moon. This lunar fragment could have been blasted into space by a ...

Space tourism is still costly and challenging, but an inspirational visit to America's great aviation and space museums and ...

NASA Psyche spacecraft Mars images from the May 15 gravity-assist flyby are now fully released, confirming all four science ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant slingshot on its journey to a mysterious metal world that could reveal what’s hidden inside planets like Earth.

NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured a breathtaking image of a sunset from the International Space Station on May 4, 2026, ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could reveal millions of hidden neutron stars in the Milky Way using gravitational microlensing.

For 10 days in April, NASA’s Artemis II crew traveled around the far side of the Moon and back, marking one of the most ...

The Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, is heading for Asteroid 16 Psyche in the outer part of the main asteroid belt, but just managed a strategic flyby of Mars.

The Psyche mission, on its way to study an asteroid of the same name, approached within 2,864 miles of the red planet on May ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system — a giant planet about the size of Saturn with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures ...

An out-of-this-world weather report from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals how clouds move across a giant planet ...