NASA astronauts land for upcoming launch
Starliner astronauts landed on the Space Coast Thursday afternoon. The duo is two weeks away from leaving earth and launching on Boeing’s highly anticipated and highly delayed Starliner spacecraft.
Voyager 1: NASA may have just managed to save its historic spacecraft
Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 and are NASA’s oldest and most distant robotic space travelers. An issue with Voyager 1’s code that began in November meant the spacecraft was unable to send back data from interstellar space. After some creative engineering to find a solution, Voyager teams got the first usable data from the spacecraft on April 20.
NASA seeks ideas for Mars sample return mission
NASA is rethinking how to bring samples from Mars back to Earth after a review found that current budget constraints would delay the Mars sample return mission to 2040 and cost more than $11 billion.
NASA seeks new ideas for Mars sample return mission due to budget constraints
The current Mars sample return plan would cause NASA to take funds from other planned missions. The space agency is seeking an alternate plan for getting Mars samples back in the 2030s and for less than $7 billion.
Delta IV Heavy rocket launches for final time from Florida
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket successfully launched the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the final time on Tuesday afternoon. The rocket launched at 12:53 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Central Florida.
Lunar eclipse happening ahead of April's total solar eclipse
A lunar eclipse always precedes or follows about two weeks before or after a solar eclipse.
See images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in new IMAX documentary
The documentary “Deep Sky” will be in select IMAX theaters across the country in April. Here’s how you can see it.
SpaceX prepares for third Starship test flight from Texas
Space fans have about a week to prepare themselves for the excitement of yet another SpaceX Starship Super Heavy test flight from East Texas.
How the military’s new X-65 plane might revolutionize aircraft design
The experimental new X-plane is designed to not have any external parts to improve weight issues and make it more aerodynamic.
Watch again: NASA, SpaceX Crew-8 rocket launch
NASA's and SpaceX's Crew-8 Mission with four astronauts aboard launched Sunday night from Kennedy Space Center in Florida en route to the International Space Station.
Crew-8 launch scheduled for tonight
The crew-8 launch is slated to happen Saturday night and officials said there's a 40% chance it'll happen.
Press conference: NASA, Intuitive Machines discuss lunar lander
The lunar lander, Odysseus, made it to the moon, as well as its experiments, and has begun sending images and data back to earth, officials with NASA and Intuitive Machines told reporters during a briefing on Wednesday. The lander landed slightly tilted on the moon's surface, however.
Odysseus moon lander makes historic landing, transmits signal back
The first U.S. commercial moon lander, Odysseus – also known by its nickname “Odie" – has made the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years.
School bus-sized satellite fell to Earth somewhere over North Pacific Ocean
The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite captured data on Earth's land, oceans and polar caps, including monitoring natural disasters.
Astronomers discover what could be universe's brightest object with black hole gobbling a sun a day
Researchers determined that this rapidly growing object can shine 500 trillion times brighter than the sun.
SpaceX, Axiom Space launch first crewed mission of 2024
Axiom Space and SpaceX successfully launched an all-European crew to the International Space Station. The instantaneous launch occurred at 4:49 p.m. on Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA unveils super quiet X-59 supersonic jet
NASA has unveiled the X-59 aircraft designed and built by Lockheed Martin to produce quiet supersonic air travel and eventually make supersonic flights available commercially.
NASA to reveal super quiet X-59 supersonic jet
Unlike normal supersonic flights, the X-59 aircraft only creates a sound as loud as a car door closing. NASA describes it as a “gentle sonic thump."
Astrobotic moon lander experiences issues after launch
The Vulcan rocket successfully launched from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning, but hours later, it was revealed that one of the payloads aboard that rocket -- Astrobotic's lunar lander -- was experiences propulsion issues. Here's the latest on that investigation.
Star Trek fans gearing up for ULA rocket launch
A ULA Vulcan rocket launch will carry the ashes of Star Trek stars into space