The Artemis 2 mission that flew astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years is returning to Earth today.
For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...
Follow along for live updates as Artemis 2 makes its closest approach to the Moon.
Crew begins a seven-hour lunar observation as NASA returns to the moon’s neighborhood for the first time in decades.
The four crew members are closer to Luna than to our home world, right on course, and viewing parts of the Moon never before seen by humans.
On average, a planetary nebula should remain visible for some 25,000 years before its shell of gas becomes invisible.
The crew was overcome with emotion as they nominated the name Carroll for a crater "in a bright spot on the Moon." ...
Yesterday, the four-person Artemis 2 crew completed the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972, passing within roughly 4,067 miles of the lunar surface before turning back toward Earth. The ...
Our satellite is lining up to slide south of the bright red giant star Antares; catch the pair this morning in the predawn sky.
In 1958, a newly minted Harvard Ph. D. named Frank Drake came to Green Bank. Usually he sought out typical radio astronomy targets — the Van Allen Belts around Earth, say, or the surface temperature ...
The Sky This Week from February 20 to 27: The Moon grazes the Pleiades Sky This Week, The Sky This Week ...