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Groundbreaking New Images of Jupiter Exceed NASA's Expectations
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured new images of Jupiter revealing never-before-seen details of the planet.
The First Full-Color Image From the James Webb Telescope is Here
The $10 billion space telescope's first images of deep space are finally here. Watch this historic event unfold on JAMES WEBB LIVE: FIRST IMAGES REVEALED Tuesday, July 12 at 10:30a on Discovery.
Watch the Super Flower Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse
Those located in the Americas, Europe, or Africa can see this rare total lunar eclipse during the night of May 15, 2022.
What We Learn from the Lunar Surface
Sure, the Moon is cool to look at, and fun to think about it. And it literally affects us here on the Earth: without the Moon, we’d be missing half our tides, and likely our planet’s rotation wouldn’t be as stable as it is.
New Photos of Martian Space Wreckage
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter captured photos of an eerie debris field on Mars.
NASA's Jessica Watkins to be first Black Female Astronaut to Spend Six Months in Space
At age 33, Watkins will soon make history as the first Black woman to join the International Space Station on an extended mission. She will serve as a mission specialist in a four-person crew on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom.
28 Billion Light-Years Away: The Most Distant Star Ever Discovered
On Wednesday, NASA announced the Hubble telescope broke a new record– detecting the most distant star ever seen.
The First Native American Woman Travels into Space with NASA's Crew-5 Mission
NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission is headed to the International Space Agency with 4 astronauts led by Mission Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann.
When We’ll Know if NASA’s Asteroid Impact Test was a Success
Recently NASA’s DART mission succeeded in its primary goal, which was to slam a spacecraft face-first into an asteroid. For science. The intention of the mission was to test if we could actually redirect an asteroid and send it into a different orbit. But how and when will we know if it worked?
Watch NASA's Asteroid-Crashing DART Mission Make Impact
NASA sent a spacecraft on a mission to crash into an asteroid, so how did it go?Updated 9/26/22
See the First Image of the Milky Way’s Huge Black Hole
For the first time, a colorized image of the supermassive black hole located at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy was shared by astronomers.
An Astronomical Review of “Don’t Look Up”
In our annual New Year’s family tradition of struggling to stay awake until midnight, we decided to watch “Don’t Look Up,” the Adam McKay satire starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and other fabulously good-looking people.
Watch Out! Meteorite Crashes Into a Woman's Bed
Insert “Did you feel the Earth move?” joke here.What weighs 2.3 pounds, is made of rocks, and plummets into your bed from outer space? Oh, it’s not a riddle; it’s just a meteorite.
This All-Civilian Space Mission Wants to Achieve the Highest Human Orbit Ever
Last year marked a fascinating turning point in the history of spaceflight. For the first time ever, more civilians went into space than professional ones. The private companies Virgin Galactic, Blue Origins, and SpaceX all offer seats for sale, with missions as brief as just a few minutes to as long as a few days.
Here Comes Artemis I (Rescheduled, again)
NASA's long-awaited Artemis 1 uncrewed moon mission and next generation of spacecraft has been delayed for a second time. The rocket was initially scheduled to launch on Aug. 29, 2022, at 8:33 AM ET, but was delayed due to an issue with the engine bleed. Watch Space Launch Live: Artemis-1 on Science Channel to see the moment of liftoff. (Launch Date Pending) (Updated Sept 7, 11:00AM)