Spacecraft

The human brain loves seeing patterns, even when they aren’t really there

Florida family files claim against NASA to compensate them after space debris crashed through their home in March

The James Webb Space Telescope’s search for the earliest stars and black holes has yielded a very weird, very red, puzzle

On its first crewed flight, troubling technical glitches with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft have left two astronauts in limbo onboard the International Space Station

Despite an eye-watering price tag, bringing pieces of Mars back to Earth promises to revolutionize our understanding of life’s place in the early solar system

China’s Chang’e 6 mission has successfully returned samples from the moon’s far side, opening a new phase of the nation’s lunar space race with the U.S.

A new film details the history of Ed Dwight and NASA’s first Black astronaut candidates

NASA’s venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal science operations with all four functioning instruments for the first time in more than six months

The latest images from Euclid, a European mission studying dark matter and dark energy, are spectacularly beautiful—and scientifically promising

We should—and must—take careful measure of what we name cosmic objects and the terms we use throughout science

The Hubble Space Telescope’s woes, moon rocks and antibiotic candidates discovered with AI are all in this week’s news roundup.

A space technology company CEO explains how growing competition in the commercial space industry may help boost climate science