A total solar eclipse is seen from San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse – the Moon passing between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun – swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of
NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon’s surface. Engineers working on NASA’s Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS, have completed hardware development and testing and the payload is ready for its permanent home near the lunar South Pole. With the hardware complete, LEMS
On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-bound ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photographs of the Earth and Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 584,600 kilometers (363,250 mi) from Earth and 186,100 kilometers (115,600 mi) from the Moon, making the Moon appear relatively
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Navigation and Operations Technology Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities. Designed to test and validate technologies in lunar orbit, CAPSTONE launched
A pre-dawn encounter between the Moon and the planets, the return of a comet, a great opportunity to see the Milky Way and Saturn’s rings from a new angle. July 7: last quarter moon July 11 + 12: Dawn alignment of the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Uranus July 14: New moon; The best dark sky
The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT Friday off the coast
