On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Here’s why it matters centuries later.
NASA launched the Swift Boost mission earlier this month to try and save one of its aging science observatories, but the rescue spacecraft is now experiencing control issues.
SpaceX launched a secret reconnaissance mission for the U.S. government early on Thursday morning, July 30, 2026 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX continues to collect imagery of the vehicle as it floats in the Indian Ocean five days after its most recent flight test.
On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth’s atmosphere along the way. Here’s why it mattered.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday, July 25, 2026.
On July 28, 1851, the first-ever photo of a total solar eclipse was recorded by a Prussian daguerreotypist named Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski. It changed solar astronomy.
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well —and provided some amazing visuals, too. See the highlights here.
Rocket Lab just inked a $266 million deal with the U.S. Space Force to launch up to 18 suborbital missile-defense missions, most of them from Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex.
On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. Here’s why it mattered.