New images from NASA’s DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.
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NASA has wasted no time in selecting the vehicle that will replace the upper stage on its new plans for a standardized Space Launch System rocket.
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The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in the nick of time.
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One of Europe’s two Proba-3 spacecraft suffered an anomaly last month, putting the future of the solar eclipse-creating mission in doubt.
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A big restructuring of NASA’s plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.
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Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay.
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Russia has fixed Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the only pad supporting the nation’s human spaceflight missions. It had been out of commission since late November.
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In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.
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NASA has repaired its Artemis 2 rocket, apparently keeping things on track for a possible April launch of the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years.
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NASA’s Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon —and it might not involve SpaceX’s Starship megarocket, either.
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