Space News

on 2020-06-05

President Donald Trump’s “Make Space Great Again” ad blazed new ground during its very brief life.

on 2020-06-05

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon has arrived at the International Space Station, both in orbit and on a new postmark.

on 2020-06-05

The starry night sky is ablaze with orange airglow in this stunning, fulldome view of the La Silla Observatory in Chile, captured by astrophotographer Guillaume Doyen.

on 2020-06-05

On June 5, 2002, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on the STS-111 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!

on 2020-06-05

A subtle lunar eclipse will be visible from much of the world today (June 5). Watch it live here, courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project, at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT).

on 2020-06-05

Sharp-eyed skywatchers in parts of the world may be able to catch a slight lunar eclipse today as Earth embarks on a new “eclipse season,” although North American viewers will be out of luck.

on 2020-06-05

Saturn’s ringing rings are revealing insights about the planet’s interior.

on 2020-06-05

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for the first mole to burrow into the surface of Mars, scientists hope.

on 2020-06-05

The campaign to reelect President Donald Trump launched a new “Make Space Great Again” video ad this week that has surprised NASA officials and sparked an online petition against the politicization of space.

on 2020-06-04

SpaceX has won NASA’s “capture the flag” contest for commercial space companies racing to be the first to launch astronauts to the International Space Station.

on 2020-06-04

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is further probing the remnants of a massive space explosion visible from Earth 3.5 million years ago.

on 2020-06-04

SpaceX’s famous Falcon 9 rocket has now been flying for a decade.

on 2020-06-04

A new virtual reality experience lets you fly closely, but safely, towards the supermassive black hole embedded in the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

on 2020-06-04

With an epic plot twist that was shrouded in secrecy, this was the equivalent of an “Avengers” movie four decades ahead of its time.

on 2020-06-04

SpaceX successfully launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit today (June 3) and nailed a rocket landing at sea to top off the mission.

on 2020-06-03

Astronomers time traveled through archives of data to spot an object that made history in the 1980s and solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

on 2020-06-03

NASA’s Curiosity rover has shown that Mars was habitable billions of years ago. And NASA is about to launch another rover, called Perseverance, to look for signs of Red Planet life.

on 2020-06-03

SpaceX will launch its next batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit tonight (June 3) after two weeks of weather delays and the company’s historic first astronaut flight.

on 2020-06-03

You can’t rush a superdense star as it gobbles up bites of a neighbor for nearly two weeks before shooting off a burst of X-rays thousands of times brighter than our sun.

on 2020-06-03

Here’s a guide to all the rocket launches and astronomical events in 2020, as well as milestones for space missions, anniversaries and conferences.

on 2020-06-03

The inspiration that human spaceflight brings cannot erase the anger and pain of communities around the United States who are reeling from violence and racial injustice.

on 2020-06-03

A cycle of moon formation through ring systems could explain the slightly tilted orbit of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons.

on 2020-06-03

Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks we could all use a strong dose of the overview effect right now.

on 2020-06-03

The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission arrived in Port Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday (June 2).

on 2020-06-02

Read about the people who push us out to the stars. Check out some of our favorite books about astronauts here.

on 2020-06-02

It’s not every day you see astronauts in space open Nasdaq trading in New York City’s Times Square.

on 2020-06-02

The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur June 5 at 3:12 p.m. EDT (1912 GMT). That same day, a penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

on 2020-06-02

“Launch America” drew at least 10.3 million concurrent viewers to NASA’s various online platforms, agency officials said.

on 2020-06-02

It was “huffing and puffing” on the way to orbit, astronauts say.

on 2020-06-01

Musk’s remark after SpaceX’s first crewed launch on Saturday (May 30) references a 2014 barb by a top Russian official.