NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.
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One of the two spacecraft that make up Europe’s Proba-3 solar-eclipse mission just reestablished contact with its handlers after being incommunicado for a month.
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The South Korean startup Innospace failed during its first orbital launch attempt, which sent five satellites aloft on Dec. 22 from Brazil.
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AI could soon be able to hijack satellites and cause them to collide with other spacecraft, triggering a cascade that could render Earth orbit unsafe.
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Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective to orbit on Friday (March 20).
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NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on Thursday (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftoff, and you can watch the action live.
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NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams prepared the International Space Station for the addition a new solar array during a spacewalk on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.
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SpaceX conducted a static fire test with the first stage of its V3 Starship on Monday (March 16), a milestone moment for this bigger, more powerful megarocket variant.
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Zhang Lu matched Chen Dong’s tally of six spacewalks as he and crewmate Wu Fei completed a seven-hour excursion outside China’s space station.
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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, happens to share some truly remarkable geophysical and geological processes with our home planet.
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