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Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more in this evening's sky
Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.
Recruiting the world’s first disabled astronaut doesn't mean space travel is inclusive – here’s how to change that
How can space agencies and “space tourism” companies make spaceflight more inclusive for disabled astronauts?
Hera asteroid probe 'waves goodbye' at Earth and moon from 2.3 million miles away (image)
The moon is getting smaller in the window.
China's space station experiments are back on Earth
Space specialists in China have begun to assess experiment samples brought back by the Shenzhou-18 crew that touched down November 4 in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
New NASA coronagraph will measure temperature, speed of solar wind from ISS
We're about to learn more about the solar wind, thanks to NASA's Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX), which just arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe to fly by Venus today before historic sun encounter
NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve.
NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft finds 'danger zones' around stars
Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have found "danger zones" for worlds where planet-birthing disks are blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars and rapidly disintegrate.
On this day in space! Nov. 6, 1572: Tycho supernova discovered
On Nov. 6, 1572, the German astronomer Wolfgang Schulër observed a supernova with his bare eyes.
