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President Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four Artemis II astronauts who flew around the Moon in April, setting a new distance record for humanity.
On Aug. 29, 1965, NASA's Gemini 5 mission ended with astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad splashing down after nearly eight days in orbit, setting a new spaceflight duration record …
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch from Florida, promising a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study dark energy, exoplanets, and cosmic structure.
On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew past asteroid Ida and discovered a tiny moon, later named Dactyl, the first confirmed satellite of an asteroid.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed to observe vast areas of the sky with Hubble-like detail, is scheduled to launch on August 30. The mission will study dark energy, …
The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council has announced funding cuts that could end operations at the e-MERLIN radio telescope array by March 2028, threatening the future of Jodrell Bank …
SpaceX has recovered the Starship upper stage from the Indian Ocean after its latest test flight, loading the floating spacecraft onto a large recovery vessel for transport back to port.
French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot will conduct her third spacewalk outside the International Space Station on September 1, following two previous excursions in August 2026.
The James Webb Space Telescope surveyed 72 stars in a nearby star-forming region, revealing that planet formation begins earlier and ends faster than previously thought, reshaping models of planetary system …
The MTG-I2 satellite lifted off on an Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana, completing the first family of Meteosat Third Generation imagers and promising a leap in weather forecasting data …
NASA's Swift space telescope is set to make an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere after a private satellite-servicing mission designed to boost its orbit fell apart, raising questions about the …
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the first spacecraft to conduct a successful planetary flyby, passing Venus and returning the first close-up data from another planet.
SpaceX has announced plans for a massive new Starbase launch facility in Louisiana, a project valued at $100 billion that is expected to create around 3,000 jobs and establish a …
Blue Canyon Technologies, an RTX subsidiary, has introduced a new spacecraft subsystem designed to simplify and accelerate mission development for small satellites.
A new study warns that proposed massive space mirrors, designed to reflect sunlight for various purposes, could appear up to 40 times brighter than the full moon, potentially disrupting astronomical …
Astronomers have detected a faint stream of stars torn from a globular cluster in the ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC 9050-Dw1, 115 million light-years away. It is the first such stream found …
SpaceX sent a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on a predawn launch from California, continuing the company's rapid deployment of its broadband constellation.
Two astronauts completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to replace a faulty antenna, restoring a critical video transmission link. The successful repair ensures continued high-definition video coverage of …
Spirit Electronics expands its online catalog with space-grade and high-reliability components from Texas Instruments and Microchip Technology ahead of SmallSat 2026, supporting the growing small satellite market.
SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink look very different when judged by operational maturity rather than launch presentations and predicted dates.
