NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the ocean Sunday after a 25-day uncrewed test flight around the moon, concluding a mission that paves the way for astronauts on the next lunar flyby. The capsule splashed down west of Baja California, more than 300 miles south of…

A group of international astronomers has used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to report the discovery of the earliest galaxies confirmed to date. In work, which NASA noted has not yet been peer-reviewed, the scientists found that the light from these galaxies has taken…

A U.S. military leader warned Friday that China is continuing to build capabilities that potentially threaten American assets in space. Commander of U.S. Space Command Gen. James Dickinson told reporters that China continues to “build capabilities that, really quite frankly, hold most of our assets at…

A group of international scientists have recovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in northern Greenland. In research published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the group said that biological communities inhabiting the Arctic during the…

An endangered seabird, a ʻakēʻakē fledgling, was caught on camera at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for the first time.The National Park Service said the nocturnal seabird was shown emerging from its high-elevation burrow on Mauna Loa around a month before the volcano erupted. The burrow was…

NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured breathtaking shots of the moon and the Earth as it returns home.It’s on course for its return on Sunday and made its second and final close approach to the moon at 10:43 a.m. CT on Monday before its return-powered flyby burn. The…