After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on Dec.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered a chemically rich, physically bizarre time capsule that is forcing scientists to rethink how planets form and how life’s ingredients first came together.

NASA will conduct at least one more wet dress rehearsal before setting a target date to launch four astronauts on a trip around the moon.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman took charge of the U.S. civilian space agency on Dec. 18. At his first news conference, he announced that SpaceX Crew-11 was leaving the International Space Station five weeks early due to an undisclosed astronaut medical issue.

This is also a significant launch for the country as well, as the Artemis II will be the first space journey near the moon since the 1970s.

Visions of the Future poster for the “Grand Tour” of planets, a reference to when NASA’s Voyager mission used the once-every-175-year alignment of our solar system’s outer planets to stage its orbiter spacecraft. (courtesy JPL/NASA) Visions of the ...