WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA said Tuesday it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon…

Fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war is threatening Mark Vande Hei’s scheduled return to Earth from space at the end of the month. The Benilde-St. Margaret’s and St. John’s University graduate is set to parachute to…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new space telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror.  All 18 segments of the primary mirror on the James Webb…

Earth simmered to the sixth hottest year on record in 2021, according to several newly released temperature measurements.  And scientists say the exceptionally hot year is part of a long-term warming trend that shows hints…

NASA opened a golden eye on the cosmos Saturday. The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex of its kind, successfully completed its final deployment stage by opening its 21-foot gold-coated, flower-shaped mirror.…

Like many other packages delivered on Dec. 25, a new telescope arrived in space Saturday with some assembly required. The gradual unfolding of the James Webb Space Telescope, currently en route to its station 930,000…

LOS ANGELES — For some people, it’s a memoir or a work of fiction; others, their first company or app. For Scott Willoughby, it’s a more than 13,000-pound telescope that must unfold while in space…

AUSTIN, Texas — Aerospace engineer Hans Mark, a former University of Texas System chancellor who escaped the Nazis as a boy and then grew up to help put a man on the moon, died Saturday.…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts returned to Earth on Monday, riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission that began last spring. Their capsule streaked through the late night sky…