Kenneth Chang

When the robotic lander Odysseus last month became the first U.S.-built spacecraft to touch down on the moon in more than 50 years, it toppled over at an angle.

After previous tests ended in explosions, the powerful rocket, a version of which will carry astronauts to the moon for NASA, is scheduled to take off Thursday morning from South Texas.

Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition by the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The Delta IV, a rocket that briefly bursts into flame just before it lifts off, is set to launch for the last time on Thursday.

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake struck the Northeast on Friday, rippling from Philadelphia to Boston.

People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement of the moon’s shadow, the last time it will pass through so much of the continent until the 2040s.

People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement of the moon’s shadow over the Earth, the last time many may be able to see it until the 2040s.

Rick Crosslin, a science teacher in Indianapolis, paired up with school maintenance employees to build a giant model of the eclipse.

The cost of a proposed NASA mission to gather rocks on Mars and return them to Earth is spiraling upward and slipping further into the future. So on Monday, space agency officials asked for ideas on simplifying the mission and trimming its price tag.

In a photo provided by B612 Asteroid Institute/University of Washington DiRAC Institute/OpenSpace Project shows, an algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects. (B612 Asteroid Institute/University of Washington DiRAC Institute/OpenSpace Project via The New York Times)