The past year in aerospace was so full of exciting developments that we had a tough time picking a final five. From the rise ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has started 2025 as he means to go on, with yet another stunning photograph from the space ...

The spacecraft passed just 3.8 million miles (6.1m km) from the solar surface on December 24, flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona, on a mission to help scientists learn more ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

A geomagnetic storm is in the space forecast, and WTOP’s Greg Redfern says that could mean the Northern Lights are visible in ...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX reportedly lost ground control for at least an hour during the Polaris Dawn mission in September which included the first-ever private spacewalk.

In the early 17th century, the Italian astronomer Galileo gave them the name aurora borealis, from the Roman goddess of the dawn and the ... NASA has a fleet of spacecraft orbiting Earth to ...