Spacecraft

Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin flew six tourists into space for a 10-minute ride Saturday, successfully carrying out its fifth crewed mission.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin makes fifth crewed flight into space

June 4, 2022

In another successful journey for SpaceX four astronauts returned home from the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of this morning, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. Home again from the ISS: (L-R) ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron

SpaceX brings four astronauts home from space station amid Russian non-cooperation threats

May 6, 2022

Ingenuity captured images that show debris from the Mars landing site featuring Perseverance’s parachute and backshell.

Mars helicopter spots wreckage from Perseverance landing

April 29, 2022

An artistic impression of a micronova explosion on a white dwarf.

‘Micronova’ explosions spotted on distant zombie stars

April 20, 2022

NASA’s next-generation James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed its sunshield — a critical feature the observatory will use to keep its instruments extra cold during the course of its mission.

NASA successfully deploys complex sunshield on James Webb Space Telescope

January 4, 2022

Early Christmas morning, NASA’s revolutionary new space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, successfully launched into space after taking off on top of a European Ariane 5 rocket from South America.

NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches to space

December 25, 2021

FILE PHOTO - The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018. NASA-Roscosmos-Handout via REUTERS

International Space Station swerves to dodge space junk

December 3, 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris speaking at an event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on November 5th, 2021 - Image- NASA-Taylor Mickal

US government issues new framework for space policy, with a focus on climate change

December 1, 2021

American astronomers are calling for the development of a whole new suite of grandiose space telescopes that will be able to peer into the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System, listen to black holes ringing as they form throughout the Universe, and look back in time to when galaxies first emerged.

Astronomers call for massive new space telescope to find next earth

November 4, 2021

A general view of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket booster at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States April 5, 2017. REUTERS-Isaiah J. Downing-File Photo

Jeff Bezos, world’s richest man, lifts off on inaugural space voyage

July 20, 2021

China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet early Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's increasingly bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.

NASA congratulates China on successful landing of spacecraft on Mars

May 16, 2021

China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet early Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's increasingly bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.

China lands unmanned spacecraft on Mars for first time

May 15, 2021

SpaceX launched its third crew of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning, reusing a Crew Dragon space capsule to fly humans for the first time. The mission, dubbed Crew-2, is the latest flight under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and will add four more astronauts to the orbital space station.

Astronauts arrive at space station aboard SpaceX Endeavour

April 24, 2021

SpaceX launched its third crew of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning, reusing a Crew Dragon space capsule to fly humans for the first time. The mission, dubbed Crew-2, is the latest flight under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and will add four more astronauts to the orbital space station.

SpaceX launches its third astronaut crew, the first on a used Crew Dragon capsule

April 23, 2021

Bejing will announce the name of its first Mars rover on the Space Day of China, which falls on April 24, according to authorities on Monday.

China to announce name of its first Mars rover

April 19, 2021