Space

NASA has sent spacecraft to every planet in our solar system, including some moons and other celestial objects. But next summer the American space agency will send a ship somewhere it never has before: The

NASA recently released a curious new photo of Tethys, one of Saturn’s moons that looks suspiciously like the Death Star, that planet-destroying weapon from the Star Wars series. Tethys is a 660-mile-wide moon that’s made mostly

Google recently launched the Lunar XPrize, offering a $20 million prize to a team that can send a robot to the moon and send pictures back to Earth. While there have been six NASA missions

The Cassini mission to Saturn is one of the grandest, most epic journeys that NASA have ever attempted. Nearly 20 years in the making, the mission’s purpose has been to study Saturn and its moons

Two epic meteor showers will take place this month. Here’s what you can expect: This first is the Draconids on Oct. 7, 2016. The radiant point for the Draconid meteor shower almost coincides with the

This month NASA launches its OSIRIS-REx mission, an epic seven-year journey that will send a spacecraft to a remote asteroid called Bennu. Why Bennu? At 4 billion years old, it is one of the oldest