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Life remains busy in orbit for China’s astronauts with a range of drills, maintenance and experiments to carry out. The Shenzhou 18 crew — Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu — currently aboard the Tiangong space station recently went through a depressurization drill, as seen in new footage released by China’s human spaceflight agency […]

Two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth after a record-long stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but for one of them, the past 374 days has amounted to barely a third of his total time spent in space. Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, along with NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, landed on Russia’s Soyuz

This week, NASA is sending up a rescue mission to the International Space Station. On Thursday (Sept. 26), NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos will launch to the International space Station (ISS) on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission. Two other NASA astronauts, Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, both mission specialists,

We finally have a glimpse of the first-ever samples collected from the far side of the moon. The first paper on the samples collected from China’s Chang’e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways from those collected from the moon’s near side. Thus, they could provide fresh insights and lead to

NASA is seeking the public’s help for innovative solutions to help Artemis astronauts navigate in and around the lunar south pole. The Artemis program aims to land humans on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions managed to achieve the feat over 50 years ago. Astronauts will land near the lunar south

Botswana’s first satellite, BotSat-1, has achieved a significant milestone as it continues progressing towards its anticipated launch in early 2025. The satellite, currently being developed through a collaboration between EnduroSat, a Bulgarian satellite manufacturer, and the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) engineers, has successfully passed its Assembly, Integration, and Testing (AIT) phase.

Boeing is getting a new space chief. Ted Colbert will no longer be CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, one of the aerospace giant’s subdivisions, according to media reports. Those reports cite a staff memo circulated today (Sept. 20) by Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, who took the top job in August. “At this critical

Cards Against Humanity has just filed a $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX. The Chicago-based Cards Against Humanity (CAH) — the company behind the bestselling adult party game in which players use cards to create either wonderfully clever or hilariously disturbing strings of phrases — distributed a statement on Friday (Sept. 20) blasting Elon Musk and

SpaceX is gearing up to make spaceflight history again. During the next test flight of its Starship megarocket, SpaceX plans to catch the vehicle’s huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, using the “chopstick” arms of the launch tower at its Starbase site in South Texas. SpaceX is known for its trailblazing achievements in rocket

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit today (Sept. 20). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink craft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s foggy central coast today at 9:50 a.m. EDT (1350 GMT and 6:50 a.m. local California time). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to