NASA

NASA tests the Boeing ship that is competing with SpaceX to establish a regular transportation line between Earth and future lunar bases

The head of science at the European Space Agency and former advisor to the British government speaks with passion and clarity about research, politics, sexism, space exploration and scientific integrity

Historic observations indicate that it explodes every 80 years and that its current cycle is about to come to a close. When that happens, it will appear as a new star in the night sky

The International Astronomical Union demands that urgent action be taken against the uncontrolled proliferation of these devices. Satellite constellations make it difficult to search for objects at risk of impacting the Earth

The instrument is currently aboard the XRISM satellite

The concept of day and night on Earth is very different from that of other worlds, where a day can last longer than a year or areas of a planet can experience eternal night

The Hera mission will study the Dimorphos asteroid that was pushed off course by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022

Veteran discoverer of exoplanets Ignasi Ribas has received a European grant to multiply by 10 the capacity to discover planets like ours and determine if they contain life

The international community is pushing for the approval of rigorous standards that track and limit the obsolete objects that can pass through the atmosphere and cause material damage on Earth

It will be a little more than 20 years before such a phenomenon can be seen in North America again

Mazatlàn (Mexico), Cleveland (United States) and Montreal (Canada) are some of the cities where the Sun will be completely hidden behind the Moon

The detection of two celestial objects careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more

Geologist Juan Manuel García Ruiz has received more than $10 million to investigate the role of silica in the emergence of living beings

The space around us has a magnetic structure that we have been able to explore with satellites. More importantly, it stops us from being constantly bombarded by particles borne on the solar wind

The launch was aborted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled liftoff. No cause was immediately given, but NASA said the crew was safe

The company said it lost contact with Starship as it neared its goal, a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. It outperformed the previous two test flights

A huge bubble in the center of the Milky Way of unknown origin has captured the attention of the ‘Fermi’ space telescope scientists

After taking advantage of their modest budgets, the Japanese ‘SLIM’ and the U.S. ‘Odysseus’ modules landed on the satellite with difficulty

The company and NASA consider the mission with which the United States has returned to the moon a success despite the setbacks

The lander Odysseus will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels. That’s two to three days short of what NASA and other customers had been counting on

The small satellite revolution is enabling a space economy in which participation is no longer limited to major world powers and large companies

Intuitive Machines’ ‘Odysseus’ device becomes the first from a private company to successfully complete a lunar landing

The Intuitive Machines probe aims to become the first private device to land on the satellite next week

The discovery on the satellite shows that these types of seas that could harbor life are abundant in the Solar System

The ocean is believed to fill half of Mimas’ volume. Yet it represents only 1.2% to 1.4% of Earth’s oceans given the moon’s petite size

The NASA astronaut speaks with EL PAÍS about the mission in which he broke the record for the longest stay on the International Space Station

Japan’s ‘SLIM’ spacecraft executes a challenging landing, showcasing the complexity of this remarkable achievement