Sitting in the middle of the Iranian plateau, the Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert, is the planet’s 24th largest desert.

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...

See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / ...

Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic events just around the bend in 2025. Several companies will attempt moon ...

Firefly Aerospace has stated that the expected launch time for Blue Ghost Mission 1 is 1:11 am EST on January 15, 2025.

A NASA astronaut has shared a video of what the Northern Lights look like from space, a view you don't normally get.

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... Perseverance sent this image back to Earth yesterday, on Sol 1379 — the number of Martian days the rover has ...

The new records and feats Elon Musk's space company achieved in 2024 The Falcon 9's upper stage is expected to continue carrying the 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, where they will be ...

LEXI will take pictures of Earth ... “We’re trying to get this big picture of Earth’s space environment,” Brian Walsh, a space physicist at Boston University and LEXI’s principal ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

From a total lunar eclipse to meteor showers to space probes, 2025 will be stellar for celestial viewing. Those and more will ...

Our museum collection, like a lot of other museums' collections, is sometimes a working collection. That means that ...