The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could grow into a credible competitor with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

Learn key facts about the Moon: from its significant distance and relative size compared to Earth to its distinctive color ...

Experience the Moon illusion, a captivating phenomenon where the Moon looms larger near the horizon—a trick played by our ...

This striking astronaut photo shows one of Russia's deepest lakes sandwiched between two halves of a volcano as its surface was transformed into a reflective sea of swirling clouds thanks to a ...

The Artemis campaign presents new challenges to functional vision, because astronauts will be unable to avoid having the sun in their eyes much of the time they are on the lunar surface.

Every year, the International Space Station produces some of the world's best photography. Astronauts tend to be technically skilled with a camera, yes. Many of them are engineers, after all.

The sight of astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore celebrating Christmas aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with Santa hats, Christmas tree and festive decorations sparked a flurry ...

If Matthew Dominick ever offers to show you his travel photos, just confirm with him first that he’s edited them down from the half a million pictures that he took during his trip into space.

A giant congregation of crabs filmed 1,350 feet below the surface in the ocean off of Chile. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute / YouTube An age of discovery is upon us. Earth is an ocean planet ...

So, what's the real story behind the Christmas cheer at 250 miles above Earth? Turns out, the explanation is much simpler—and a lot more festive than anyone imagined. When astronauts Butch ...

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