The country’s plans include spacecraft designed to detect asteroids coming from the direction of the sun, which has long been a space-rock blind spot.
NASA’s nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to design and manufacture the protective aeroshell that will shield the Skyfall spacecraft’s descent stage during its plummet through the Martian atmosphere.
The next American flag to be planted on the moon has been placed in the hands of one of the last astronauts to walk on the lunar surface.
The Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September for a new role.
China’s Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa.
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA’s commercial moon landers for its Artemis program.
While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock in case of trouble.
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning new images of the double-lobed space rock.
NASA joined in the semiquincentennial celebrations this year by painting “America 250” on the rocket that launched the Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon.