1+ day, 4+ min ago   (371+ words) Kaguya, named after a moon princess, captured the first-ever HD video and images of the moon. On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (182+ words) Josh Dinner is Space.com's Spaceflight Staff Writer. He is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration, and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA's Artemis program and…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (333+ words) "It made us think that there's a process obscuring shortening structures." Wrinkles on the surface of Mercury have revealed that the closest planet to the sun is shrinking faster than scientists thought. New research suggests that Mercury is shrinking between…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (304+ words) "We can – and must – get on the right path." Global warming will soon cross a critical threshold, surpassing a dangerous limit set years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. But experts say it's still possible to cool…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (396+ words) "The side that can maneuver persistently and at scale will set the operational rhythm in orbit." To put it in plain English, this means that Space Command practiced maneuvering satellites and other spacecraft in proximity to one another in a…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (688+ words) "China will not only grab the headlines but may be the first to find evidence of life on another planet." China is making progress on its Tianwen 3 Mars sample return mission, which aims to bring back to Earth roughly 500 grams…...

6+ day, 32+ min ago   (557+ words) Genesis, NASA's first sample-return mission since Apollo 17 in 1972, was brought down by a basic design flaw. On Sept. 8, 2004, NASA's Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in Utah after its parachutes failed to deploy. Genesis was NASA's first sample-return mission since the Apollo program,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (338+ words) The test, while unsucessful, did show that Navy ships could be floating launch pads for a new kind of weapon: the ballistic missile. On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket was captured…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (351+ words) The new antenna will boost capacity on NASA's increasingly strained deep-space communications network as Artemis and other missions drive up demand. The Deep Space Network (DSN), best known for communicating with distant spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (457+ words) Voyager 1 launched to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Today, it's in interstellar space. On Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 began its epic journey through deep space with a glorious morning launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Voyager 1 initially launched on a mission to explore the…...