Space Exploration

The International Space Station spotted a Mediterranean island, Neptune and its rings stunned astronomers and an asteroid-colliding spacecraft peered at Jupiter's closest moon. These are some of this week's top photos.

The growing strength of Tropical Storm Ian has forced NASA to call off its Artemis 1 moon rocket launch on Sept. 27 and prepare to leave the launch pad.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flies again in the Martian sky, the public gears up to follow a spacecraft's collision with an asteroid and scientists find a hotspot around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. These are some of this week's top stories.

On today's This Week in Space, space visionary Jeff Greason joins us to discuss why humanity must continue to explore and develop space.

On Sept. 24, 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars!

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 52 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Saturday at 7:32 p.m. EDT (2332 GMT). Watch it live here.

For NASA's DART spacecraft, the drama happens in space, but mission success relies on telescopes back on Earth.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a U.S. spy satellite on Saturday (Sept. 24), and you can watch it live. Liftoff is scheduled for 5:53 p.m. EDT (2153 GMT).

The Virtual Telescope Project will attempt to show DART's impact through its network of ground-based telescopes.

There is some debate as to the nature of the star cluster NGC1746.