Historic private astronaut mission prepares for splashdown
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
Iran says new research satellite launched into orbit
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
Australia advances hypersonic flight testing with Southern Launch and Hypersonix collaboration
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
What next for Boeing Starliner sans astronauts
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
Rosetta's influence: How has it inspired you?
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
NASA recreates Mars' Spider formations in lab for the first time
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
JunoCam identifies new volcanic feature on Io
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
Inouye Solar Telescope maps magnetic fields in the Sun's corona
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
Astronomers capture detailed motion of gas bubbles on a star's surface
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
Satellogic chosen for NASA's SmallSat Data Acquisition Program
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
NASA conducts key telemedicine and health research with Polaris Dawn Crew
Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:42
Tech billionaire returns to Earth after first private spacewalk
Sunday, 15 September 2024 07:32
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA's moonwalkers.
SpaceX's capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida's Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot.
They pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles (740 kilometers) above Earth, higher than the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope.
Catch a partial lunar eclipse during September's supermoon
Sunday, 15 September 2024 07:32
Get ready for a partial lunar eclipse and supermoon, all rolled into one.
The spectacle will be visible in clear skies across North America and South America Tuesday night and in Africa and Europe Wednesday morning.
A partial lunar eclipse happens when the Earth passes between the sun and moon, casting a shadow that darkens a sliver of the moon and appears to take a bite out of it.
Since the moon will inch closer to Earth than usual, it'll appear a bit larger in the sky. The supermoon is one of three remaining this year.
"A little bit of the sun's light is being blocked so the moon will be slightly dimmer," said Valerie Rapson, an astronomer at the State University of New York at Oneonta.
The Earth, moon and sun line up to produce a solar or lunar eclipse anywhere from four to seven times a year, according to NASA.
Crew Dragon splashes down to conclude Polaris Dawn mission
Sunday, 15 September 2024 07:03

Boeing 'ran out of time' on Starliner: astronaut stuck on ISS
Saturday, 14 September 2024 07:30
A US astronaut stuck on the International Space Station said Friday he believed Boeing's Starliner could have carried him home, if more time had been available to work through the beleaguered spacecraft's issues.
Last week, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams watched the Boeing Starliner they rode to the ISS three months prior head back to Earth without them.
"We could have gotten to the point, I believe, where we could have returned on Starliner, but we just simply ran out of time," Wilmore said Friday in a video press conference.
On June 5, Wilmore and Williams took off aboard the Starliner as part of the vessel's first crewed mission, in what was originally meant to be eight days in orbit.