An animated OSIRIS-REx leaves the Bennu asteroid. Credit: NASA The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with…
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NASA extends tiny CAPSTONE probe’s moon mission to December 2025
NASA’s CAPSTONE mini-spacecraft recently marked its 100th trip around the moon in near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). The agency has just granted CAPSTONE a mission extension after operating in its NRHO…
Is life possible on a Jupiter moon? NASA goes to investigate
Does Europa contain the ingredients that would allow life to be present? Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is due…
In a first, Starship megarocket booster caught by SpaceX’s ‘chopsticks’
This still image taken from a SpaceX broadcast shows the Starship’s Super Heavy Booster being ‘caught’ mid-air as it returns to the launch pad near Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX successfully…
SpaceX catches giant Starship booster with ‘Chopsticks’ on historic Flight 5 rocket launch and landing (video)
The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built took to the skies again. And this time, it came back. SpaceX launched its 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship vehicle for the fifth…
Watch SpaceX’s Crew-8 astronauts head home to Earth on Oct. 13
SpaceX’s Crew-8 astronaut mission begin the trip home to Earth Sunday morning (Oct. 13), and you can watch the action live. Crew-8’s Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, is scheduled to undock…
Lightning storms play cosmic pinball with space weather
Visualization showing how magnetic field lines, thin cyan lines, circling Earth can trap charged particles, thin yellow lines. Credit: UCLA EPSS/NASA SVS When lightning strikes, the electrons come pouring down. In…
Astronomers find Webb data conflict with reionization models
Simulation of galaxies ionizing hydrogen gas (bright areas) during the epoch of Reionization. Credit: M. Alvarez, R. Kaehler, and T. Abel / European Southern Observatory (ESO). Reionization is a critical…
We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?
Space programs are often concerned with what’s happening “out there” in the universe, a large portion of what space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) do is…
