If you want to see NASA's next moonbound launch leave Florida, you're going to have to act fast. Ticket sales for the Artemis 1 launch, which is targeted for Aug. 29, were so popular after opening Tuesday (Aug. 2) that the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's website was briefly overwhelmed, Florida Today reported(opens in new tab) late last week.

After a number of delays, NASA's Artemis I moon mission is inching awfully close to the finish line. As of this week, the agency confirmed it's preparing for an Aug. 29 liftoff, targeting date No.1 on a list of three possible windows. "We've basically got a date with the range on the 29th of August," Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager, said in a Wednesday press conference, referring to the rocket's future blastoff location.

A team of researchers, led by Swinburne's Professor Akbar Rhamdhani, has published the first detailed study of its kind on metal production on another planet.

A stunning image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has given us the clearest look of the Cartwheel Galaxy so far. NASA released the image Tuesday of the distant galaxy — named for its resemblance to a wagon wheel. The Cartwheel Galaxy is located about 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, the agency said in a press release.

NASA's trio of robots known as Astrobee have completed the first phase of a project to test whether an autonomous system can provide spacecraft monitoring, maintenance and incident response. NASA's 12-inch wide cube-shaped robots are more like a flying Roomba than a Boston Dynamics dog or humanoid; more like Weebo, the flying assistant in the 90s' Robin Williams sci-fi/comedy Flubber, than Terminator.

NASA has completed the next steps in the Artemis 1 mission — installing the data-gathering mannequin Commander Moonikin Campos inside the Orion spacecraft that will launch to the moon atop a brand-new megarocket.

Earlier this week, Russia indicated that it was not extending the current cooperation agreement for the International Space Station, which expires in 2024, and would be departing the project after that. Nearly everyone noticed that there was no actual departure date specified, leaving open the possibility that it would continue its participation without a formal agreement in place. That now seems to be what will happen.

H.G. Wells’ book “The First Men in the Moon” depicts alien life in lunar caves.

Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has led scientists to conclude that the Moon hosts around 200 "pits" that offer stable and human-friendly temperatures. The pits "always hover around a comfortable 63F/17C, NASA stated on Wednesday.

Even NASA's next-generation space observatory can't manage to see supermassive black holes directly, but that doesn't mean astronomers can't use its data to better understand the mysterious behemoths.

The timeline could still certainly shift in the coming weeks.

NASA has reported that a meteoroid hit on the James Webb Space Telescope has caused "significant uncorrectable" damage to one of the panels it uses to stare into deep space. The orbiting observatory was launched last December and recently released a full set of new observations, including what is said to be the "deepest" and most detailed picture of the cosmos to date.

NASA on Tuesday awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX with a contract to provide launch services for the next space telescope mission. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is 2.4 meters in diameter, is slated to launch in October 2026, the space agency said in a press release. Under the contract, SpaceX will launch the telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals its first images on 12 July, they will be the by-product of carefully crafted mirrors and scientific instruments. But all of its data-collecting prowess would be moot without the spacecraft’s communications subsystem. The Webb’s comms aren’t flashy. Rather, the data and communication systems are designed to be incredibly, unquestionably dependable and reliable.

NASA and the Russian space agency Roskosmos have signed a long-term agreement to complete flights to the International Space Station (ISS), which will allow Russian cosmonauts to fly to the space station on US spacecraft in exchange for Americans being able to travel with Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Roskosmos announced today.

New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt to examine ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune.

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance (Percy) Mars rover has been had at work carrying out its science campaign in Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, but it’s equally been busy scouting for sites for NASA’s planned Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, which is a joint mission with the European Space Agency.

Dubbed “Webb’s First Deep Field,” it is the first full-color image from the $10 billion observatory that launched into space last year.

At last! After much anticipation, President Joe Biden will reveal the first science-quality, full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, NASA confirmed in a tweet.

The image, known as “Webb’s First Deep Field,” will be the deepest and highest-resolution view of the universe ever captured. Biden is scheduled to release it on Monday.