Four compact satellites of NASA's PUNCH mission are prepping for a shared launch with the SPHEREx space telescope on a SpaceX ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, is flying laps ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander, part of NASA's mission, captures breathtaking Earth images. Discover the details ...

You might want to keep your eyes on the skies through next month: Six planets will align in January and February.

What do you think of when you hear the word “sparrow?” If someone had asked me this as a child, I would have said it’s a ...

Last fall’s 10th long-player L.A. Times still hoists Britpop oom-pah (“Gaslight”), so the Scots’ Raze the Bar tour flashes ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

In Earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...

The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...

Joel Achenbach writes about science and politics for The Washington Post's National desk. He has been a staff writer for The Post since 1990. He started the newsroom’s first online column, Rough ...