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The technology demonstrator lifted off Oct. 1 from Vandenberg and will test close-range inspection that could support future satellite repairs and debris cleanup.
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The Crew-12 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific off Los Angeles, and NASA has scheduled a news conference about their mission.
Launch is targeted for early morning on Tuesday, October 13. The cargo includes the last set of roll-out solar arrays for the space station.
A new image from NASA's Mars rover looks back over the crater floor it left behind, days after the mission marked a full kilometer of climbing.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for 5 October 2026 looks beyond M104's famous dusty disk to the faint trails of stars around it.
The Tranche 1 Transport Layer A mission from Vandenberg is now set for no earlier than Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 08:17 UTC.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day features a well-known Mars self-portrait. Curiosity built it from many frames taken by the camera on its robotic arm.
An engineering model of the Venus descent sphere was heated to 465 °C in a ceramic-lined chamber to match conditions at the planet's surface.
Four crew members from NASA, ESA and Roscosmos are due back on Earth in early October after months of research aboard the International Space Station.
SpaceX's Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station is set to lift off from Florida on Thursday, October 1, with NASA streaming the whole approach from prelaunch to docking.
Albania, Croatia, Côte d'Ivoire and San Marino have signed on, bringing the US-led framework for peaceful space exploration to 76 participating countries.
A commercial attempt to lift NASA's aging Swift observatory into a higher orbit did not reach its main goal. NASA and its industry partner say the experience will still help future in-space servicing work.
Boeing's capsule will fly without crew first to prove fixes made after the troubled 2024 mission.
Flight 14 achieved Starship’s first orbital mission and contact with all 26 deployed satellites. An engine issue led controllers to bring the ship home early as a precaution.
A new reconstruction of the bedrock under the Greenland Ice Sheet links hundreds of valleys that earlier maps missed or showed only in pieces.
Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center put a small satellite through environmental and physical testing. The satellite will demonstrate one propulsion system that can handle different kinds of maneuvers.
On Sept. 28, Flight 14 reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites. SpaceX shortened the orbital phase after one booster engine and one ship vacuum engine shut down early. Orbit is a prerequisite for the lunar Starship HLS, but the decisive in-orbit propellant transfer has not yet been demonstrated.
The small European republic signed the U.S.-led principles for responsible space exploration at a ceremony in Rimini, Italy, with NASA and State Department officials present.
A news conference on Monday, 28 September, will cover where Boeing's crew capsule stands and how it could start regular crew rotations to the International Space Station.
Three astronauts and one cosmonaut are in Florida for final preparations. Their launch is targeted for no earlier than October 1.
SpaceX planned a morning launch from the West Coast for the U.S. Space Force. The mission's payload has not been made public.
Philadelphia's Chinyere Ukeje won the top $300,000 prize for a food system concept called Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure.
The West African country joined the U.S.-led framework for peaceful space exploration at a ceremony in Abidjan, a milestone number for the coalition.
Astronauts from NASA, JAXA and Roscosmos will fly to the International Space Station for a long-duration stay no earlier than spring 2027.
On the International Space Station, the SpaceX Crew-13 team will support biomedical research that includes a new joint study of blood flow and clotting in spaceflight.
Ship 41 now sits on its Super Heavy booster ahead of a likely fueling test. Flight 14 is targeted for no earlier than 28 September, pending FAA approval.
NASA's long-lived space telescope reached a new round-number milestone on 19 September and marked the day with an observation aimed at a supernova magnified by gravitational lensing.
The objects give off weak, low-energy X-rays but a lot of ultraviolet light. Astronomers think they could help answer two open questions.
Researchers backed by NASA have found an organism with complex cells living at temperatures once thought too extreme for such life.
NASA released an image from July 8, 2026, showing the core detector stack of the Compton Spectrometer and Imager being lifted during integration.
Evening liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E marked SpaceX's 81st dedicated Starlink flight of 2026.
In an internal note to staff published by NASA Watch, Jared Isaacman calls a summer 2027 launch of Artemis III the best case and says the mission is roughly 90 days behind schedule. NASA aims to preserve up to two landing opportunities in 2028 but acknowledges that only Artemis IV may fly that year. Official targets on NASA’s website have not changed.
The 35th SpaceX commercial resupply run to the ISS is targeted for no earlier than October, riding a Falcon 9 with science payloads, crew supplies and hardware.
Signing ceremony scheduled for Sept. 21 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, with media invited to attend.
An expert at the Astronaut Center of China said development of the Wangyu moon-landing suit is progressing smoothly, with dozens of key technologies in place. Bed-rest research simulating long-duration weightlessness is also advancing. China keeps its goal of a crewed landing by 2030; no flight test of the new systems has been announced.
A contract modification keeps Crew Dragon carrying astronauts to the ISS as the agency locks in transport for the station's remaining years.
SpaceX will fly NASA's small StarBurst satellite on a Falcon 9 rideshare to study neutron star mergers and short gamma-ray bursts.
On Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle orbiter, renamed Enterprise after a Star Trek fan campaign.
A new NASA satellite image shows Indonesia's Anak Krakatau venting ash and gas, a reminder of the volcano's restless history.
Seasonal water shifts nudge Earth's center of mass by fractions of an inch, and NASA scientists are tracking it for precision navigation.
