A SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Endurance capsule stand ready on pad 39A for the Crew 7 mission. Image: NASA.
NASA, SpaceX and its international partners meet at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday and gave the go ahead for the launch of the seventh operational Crew Dragon mission to the space station.
On August 10th, 2023, Roscosmos’ Luna-25 mission launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz-2 rocket. This mission was the first lunar mission to launch from Russia since the 1970s and would be the first Russian lander to touch down in the South-Pole Aitken basin. This mission was part of Roscosmos’ partnership with China to develop an International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) in the region by 2030. Unfortunately, Russia announced on Saturday, August 19th, that the lander spun out of control and crashed into the surface.
SpaceX and NASA have cleared the company's Crew-7 astronaut mission to the ISS for launch. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:49 a.m. EDT (0749 GMT) on Friday (Aug. 25).
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has captured photos of a big sunspot, which should rotate into view for those of us on Earth in the coming days.
Satellites watched weakening tropical storm Hilary bring a deluge to California hours after a series of earthquakes shook the Los Angeles region.
India's Chandrayaan-3 probe has photographed the far side of the moon, testing out landing optics that will be put to use during an Aug. 23 touchdown try.
The James Webb Space Telescope strikes again, this time with a beautiful new view of a famous planetary nebula. But don't be fooled — none of this has anything to do with planets.
Scientists developing more sensitive next-generation gravitational wave detectors struggle with technical challenges that might be easily overcome by putting such detectors on the moon.
Four astronauts from four different countries arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 20 ahead of their expected launch from Florida Aug. 25.
SpaceX has rolled its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule to the launch pad ahead of the planned Friday (Aug. 25) liftoff of the Crew-7 astronaut mission for NASA.
Fifteen years after she made her debut in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Jedi Ashoka Tano is finally getting her own Disney Plus series, Star Wars: Ahsoka.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the well-known Ring Nebula with unprecedented detail. Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring Nebula is an archetypal planetary nebula. The object is also known as M57 and NGC 6720, and is relatively close to Earth at roughly 2,500 light-years away.
Astronomers may have spotted a supermassive black hole in the early universe that formed when a gargantuan gas cloud imploded.
For the first time, researchers were able to transmit, or "tunnel," sound waves across extremely small distances between two crystals in a vacuum.
Photos from SpaceX's recent Starlink launch highlight Falcon 9's raw power, as its rocket engines illuminate the night.
Image: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen with his Crew-7 colleagues on arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, 20 August.
Grand Admiral Thrawn is being set up as the big bad in the Ahsoka series. Who is he and what does he want? Here’s a quick rundown of his story so far.
The journey of Ahsoka, Anakin Skywalker’s former apprentice continues this summer on Disney Plus. Need to catch up? Here’s a quick rundown of her story so far.
Astronomer Carl Sagan once said that humanity is "made of star stuff." In a new video, astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains what that actually means and where the elements in our body come from.
An experimental detector can now rule out dark matter particles down to about a fifth of a proton's mass.
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