Japan's MMX mission will blast off soon to collect Martian moon samples. The spacecraft will orbit Mars for three years and ...

Deorbit-as-a-Service contracts worth $8.4 million were awarded by the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency and Defense ...

An icy visitor from another star system has swept through the inner solar system faster than any object ever tracked on a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The image was captured by the Meteosat-12 satellite in ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science. Hosted by Dr. Mike Reed, Astro Brief focuses on ...

Standing in moonshade with astronauts and children I was struck by the majesty of it all - but another niggling thought ...

Had you told people many years ago that the earth was round, they'd have thought you were lying. As far as our forefathers were concerned, they lived on a flat surface and could fall off at any moment ...

The 2026 total solar eclipse is finally upon us, marking the first total solar eclipse visible from parts of mainland Europe in almost three decades. Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion ...

An eclipse gives the opportunity to learn more about the sun, moon, stars, and exoplanets which orbit stars outside the solar ...

The 2026 Persied meteor shower could be the best one in years, thanks to a new moon that will also cause a total solar ...

Michael Zeiler is currently aboard the expedition ship Ocean Explorer, heading to the fjords of Greenland to view the ...

Compact sensor-packed probes, propelled by laser- or Sun-powered sails, could be humanity's first scouts to another star system.