NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch, but the observatory almost had a very different fate. President Trump’s leaked budget proposal last year marked it for cancellation.
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world’s first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet: Venus.
Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket launched the sharp-eyed MTG-I2 weather satellite to orbit today (Aug. 27).
Sun-reflecting space mirrors proposed by U.S. startup Reflect Orbital will have an even more devastating effect on the night sky around the world than previously thought, a study has found.
On Aug. 26, 1978, cosmonaut and pilot Sigmund Jähn became the first German to fly in space. Here’s why it mattered.
The biggest threat to any crewed expedition to Mars is time. NASA’s shortest blueprint for sending people to the Red Planet and back requires spending 620 days in space and 30 days on Mars. Even setting aside the compounding challenges of building lif…
SpaceX’s last planned Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida created a memorable sight for folks hundreds of miles away — a glowing “jellyfish” high in the sky.
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 26), in a predawn liftoff from California’s central coast.
Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Tuesday, (Aug. 25), installing a replacement Space-to-Ground antenna on the outside of the International Space Station.
A new spaceport will bring 10 launch pads to Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and support thousands of Starship launches per year.