Missions to the moon and Mars and a new space-based telescope are in the works for 2021, say Ian Whittaker and Gareth Dorrian.

Jupiter and Saturn will appear to merge in the night sky into one bright 'star' on Monday, Dec. 21.

'The crew member could take their phone and call home. They could text their kids from the lunar surface from that phone,' one of the project researchers explained.

NASA's Artemis program is an ambitious series of lunar missions aimed at putting humans back on the moon by 2024, with a permanent presence by 2030.

NASA put the first men on the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s but the Artemis mission marks the first attempt to return to the lunar surface, with plans to stay.

With NASA's commercial crew program officially under way, SpaceX expects to always have at least one Dragon capsule at the space station.

Blue Origin leads a "national team" as the prime contractor that it assembled in 2019 to help build its Blue Moon lander.

SpaceX's newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived Monday at the International Space Station, their new home until spring.

The Leonids have produced some of the most spectacular meteor storms in history.

Astronomers think they can predict where yet-undetected planets may reside in the same way you might guess which pieces are missing from a partially completed puzzle.