NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft returns to Kennedy Space Center
The agency can now take apart the capsule.
Space
NASA officially retires its InSight Mars lander
The agency last heard back from the lander on December 15th.
Radiator leak from Russian ISS module leaves spacewalkers cooling their heels
NASA said the capsule's external radiator cooling loop is the likely culprit.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
Everything NASA is taking to the moon before colonizing Mars
The Artemis missions will spend the rest of the decade setting up humanity's first extraterrestrial outpost.
Watch NASA's ocean-monitoring satellite launch here at 6AM ET
SWOT will survey water on almost 90 percent of the Earth's surface.
NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission has returned to Earth
The Orion crew vehicle landed in the Pacific Ocean following a near-perfect flight.
Watch NASA's Artemis 1 splashdown here, starting at 11AM ET
Orion's first mission to the Moon will soon draw to a close.
The Biden administration is reportedly drafting an executive order to streamline space rules
The president could sign the order by early next year.
UN passes resolution to curb space debris from anti-satellite missile tests
China, India and Russia all voted against the measure.
Blue Origin makes another bid for a NASA lunar lander contract
NASA said it would accept more proposals after only awarding one contract to SpaceX.
Construction starts in Australia on the world's largest radio telescope
The Square Kilometer Array will help study dark energy and the early universe.
Southern hemisphere’s largest radio telescope joins search for extraterrestrial tech
MeerKAT will increase the number of targets that Breakthrough Listen can observe by a thousand fold.
NASA's Orion photographed the Earth and moon from a quarter-million miles away
The spacecraft snapped the photo at a record-setting distance from home.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft breaks Apollo 13 flight record
On Saturday, the capsule traveled farther than any spacecraft designed to carry humans had before.
Watch the next major phase of NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission start here at 4:52PM ET
Orion is slated to go into a distant retrograde orbit around the moon.
Hubble spots colliding galaxies in a spectacular dance
The James Webb telescope is poised to take a closer look.
Water recycling technologies developed for space are helping a parched American west
But even aboard the ISS, we have yet to create a fully-closed reuse system.
UK surgeon named world's first astronaut with a disability
Decorated doctor and athlete John McFall lost his right leg after a motorcycle accident at age 19.
NASA's Orion crew vehicle successfully completes moon flyby
The Artemis 1 spacecraft was just 81 miles above the lunar surface at one point.
NASA's Orion spacecraft on track to begin moon flyby on November 21st
The spacecraft has so far "exceeded expectations."
