NASA has picked Blue Origin to build its next Mars telecommunications orbiter, awarding a $700 million contract to Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company.
An incredible launch photo captures fire spewing from a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket during the launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30, 2026.
On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander on the surface of the Comet 67P. Here’s why it mattered.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early this morning (Sept. 2). It was the 35th flight for the rocket’s first stage.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot replaced a camera and a docking aid during a 6-hour, 49-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday (Sept. 1).
The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a small, cheap probe to Alpha Centauri in the next few years, to inspire further exploration and help humanity contemplate its place in the universe.
On Sept. 1, 1979, NASA’s robotic space probe Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn. Here’s why it mattered.
NASA’s Roman space telescope, which launched on Aug. 30, is part of a small set of missions named after female historical figures.
A photo of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot on the outside of the International Space Station captures the staggering altitude at which the crewed laboratory orbits Earth.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and France’s Sophie Adenot will conduct the sixth all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Sept. 1), and you can watch it live.