Space News

on 2021-04-23

SpaceX’s next crewed launch for NASA will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on the Crew-2 mission on April 22. Liftoff is set for 6:11 a.m. EDT (1011 GMT). Known as Crew-2, the mission will mark SpaceX’s third crewed spaceflight and will ferry NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet on a six-month mission to the space station.

on 2021-04-23

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on a Crew Dragon spacecraft at 5:49 a.m. EDT (0949 GMT). Watch it live!

on 2021-04-22

Commander Musilova reflects on her inner battle to accept the Selene IV crew’s dramatic new ways of life, which are full of both positive and surprising changes in the HI-SEAS lunar analog habitat.

on 2021-04-22

People across the eastern United States could witness a SpaceX rocket launch four astronauts into space early Friday (April 23)

on 2021-04-22

President Joe Biden tweeted his support for the Ingenuity team after the little helicopter’s record-setting Mars flight on Monday (April 19).

on 2021-04-22

SpaceX will launch a crew of four astronauts early tomorrow (April 23) on its second operational crewed flight for NASA, and you can watch the action online.

on 2021-04-22

NASA scientists, astronauts and musician Shawn Mendes teamed up this Earth Day to remind us how planet Earth connects us all.

on 2021-04-22

Earth’s poles are moving — and that’s normal. But new research suggests that within just decades, climate change and human water use have given the poles’ wandering an additional nudge.

on 2021-04-22

The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon, occurs Monday, April 26 at 11:32 p.m. EDT (0332 GMT on Tuesday, April 27). It will also be a “supermoon.”

on 2021-04-22

The newly discovered exoplanet is three times as massive as Earth.

on 2021-04-22

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter took to the skies above Mars’ Jezero Crater again early this morning (April 22), just three days after making history with its first Red Planet flight.

on 2021-04-22

Netflix serves up another solid sci-fi adventure with the outer space actioner directed by Joe Penna: “Stowaway.”

on 2021-04-22

The acclaimed underwater photographer takes us into the watery domain of the world’s largest mammals and their rich culture that mirrors ours.

on 2021-04-22

On April 22, 2010, the U.S. Air Force launched the super-secret X-37B space plane on its first spaceflight. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

on 2021-04-22

Earth Day 2021 is here and the folks at Google hope it plants a tree in your heart with this adorable Google doodle.

on 2021-04-22

SpaceX’s next astronaut launch is just a day away from liftoff and you can catch a close-up look at the launch pad in a new drone video.

on 2021-04-22

Space junk is a growing problem. Better fight it with lasers.

on 2021-04-22

The state of the global climate continued to worsen in 2020 despite the series of economically damaging lockdowns and travel limitations triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

on 2021-04-22

It marks a milestone in the story of human space exploration.

on 2021-04-22

The Mars helicopter will attempt its second flight above the Red Planet on Thursday (April 22) at 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 GMT).

on 2021-04-21

NASA’s Perseverance rover just notched another first on Mars, one that may help pave the way for its human overlords to explore the Red Planet someday.

on 2021-04-21

Astronomers have apparently found the closest known black hole to Earth — a weirdly tiny object dubbed “The Unicorn” that lurks just 1,500 light-years from us.

on 2021-04-21

One of springtime’s most prominent “shooting star” groups peaks overnight tonight (April 21-22).

on 2021-04-21

Walking around the moon could be faster than we originally thought, but actually doing it would require some serious planning.

on 2021-04-21

A hunt for hypothetical axions streaming from Betelgeuse turns up empty but helps physicists set constraints on their properties.

on 2021-04-21

Space.com caught up with Greene to discuss the importance of science education, why black holes are so interesting and whether a “theory of everything” breakthrough could be on the horizon.

on 2021-04-21

Astronaut Sally Ride will be depicted on a U.S. coin looking out a spacecraft window at Earth, if the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury agrees with the recommendations made by two advisory panels.

on 2021-04-21

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity took flight for the first time Monday (April 19), with data confirming the flight beaming back down to Earth later that morning.

on 2021-04-21

Here’s a guide to all the rocket launches and astronomical events in 2021, as well as milestones for space missions, anniversaries and conferences.

on 2021-04-21

A brief summary of Michael Hopkins’ career in the Air Force and at NASA.