The government will focus on R&D and ambitious missions, such as human spaceflight, while operational responsibilities ...

At the start of each year, within a few days of all the New Year's Eve celebrations wrapping up, the sky itself puts on a grand show for us, sending streaks of light flashing over our heads throughout ...

In 2024, an uptick in solar activity made northern lights visibility reach a 500-year peak, according to NASA, bringing ...

Ohioans might be celebrating New Year's Eve with the northern lights after seeing them in May and October. See the aurora ...

The Space Weather Prediction Center reports that the ... Get away from city lights and avoid trying to see them on the night of a full moon. The best time to view the aurora is within an hour ...

December 2024 will see a rare "black moon," a term for the second new moon ... in the southeast and Mercury is at 13 degrees. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

Astronauts were last on the moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. Artemis II will utilize NASA's Space Launch System ... These missions collectively provided maps showing how hydrous minerals ...

The data NASA hopes to collect should also provide insights into how space weather ... set to map the distribution of the different forms of water that exist on the surface of the Moon.

It is currently being used by NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, or EMIT, instrument onboard the International Space Station to ... one wants on a particular map for a specific ...

It's going to help us predict space weather in the future and really understand the only important star in the sky, which is our sun. What is this probe doing up there exactly? We have a bunch ...

Highlights include passes by two different space stations ... moonless sky. Weather permitting, we’ll see the annual Quadrantid meteor shower on the morning of Jan. 3 with no moon to mar ...