Science Mar 16 NASA’s Williams and Wilmore welcome their newly arrived replacements to space station Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.
Politics Mar 12 WATCH: NASA and SpaceX launch SPHEREx observatory telescope, mission to study formation of galaxy Launched Tuesday night from California by SpaceX, the Spherex observatory will survey the sky every six months from an orbit over Earth's poles.
Science Mar 07 Private lunar lander declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near moon’s south pole The news came less than 24 hours after the botched landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines. Launched last week, the lander named Athena missed its mark by more than 800 feet and ended up in a frigid crater, the company said.
Science Mar 06 Another private lunar lander has touched down on the moon, but may have fallen over Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the moon’s south pole or lying sideways like its first spacecraft from a year ago.
Science Mar 04 NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are just a few weeks away from returning to Earth During a news conference Tuesday, Wilmore said that while politics is part of life, it did not play into his and Williams' return, moved up a couple weeks thanks to a change in SpaceX capsules.
Science Mar 02 Private lunar lander successfully touches down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
Science Feb 25 Scientists (mostly) rule out this newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth in the next decade There’s still a 1.7 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA.
Science Feb 10 In our cosmic neighborhood, space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away.
Science Feb 05 Researchers say an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this decade.
Science Jan 30 Two stuck NASA astronauts take their first spacewalk together after 8 months aboard the International Space Station NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.