Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth today (April 30) after six months in the final frontier. The Shenzhou 17 spacecraft touched down under parachutes in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region today at 5:46 a.m. EDT (0946 GMT; 5:46 p.m. Beijing time), about nine hours after departing...

NASA has selected four volunteers to go on a mission to Mars — without actually leaving Earth. The simulated mission to the Red Planet will take place at a habitat created at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston; it will simulate what it would be like for astronauts to live and work on Mars...

China has reached a new frontier within lunar exploration and scientific research with its release of the world’s first complete high-definition geologic atlases of the moon. The atlases, available in both Chinese and English, are an all-encompassing tool made up of the Geologic Atlas of the Lunar...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic celestial bodies in the sky over Earth. The most powerful telescope ever placed into orbit around our planet, the JWST was able to see details of the Horsehead Nebula, also...

Launch preparations are quickening for China’s next spacecraft sendoff to the moon — the robotic Chang’e 6 mission. The spacecraft now sits atop a Long March 5 rocket at its departure site in Wenchang, in China’s Hainan province. Chang’e 6 is reportedly scheduled to launch on...

Two NASA astronauts will soon make history as the first to launch into space aboard a Boeing spaceship. Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 6, representing the first Crew Flight Test, or CFT, of...

The Senegalese Space Study Agency (ASES) and the Turkish Space Agency/Türkiye Uzay Ajansı (TUA) have officially entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), focusing on human capacity development and space infrastructure advancement between the two nations. The MoU was signed by Mr Maram Kaire...

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Sunday evening (April 28). The Starlink spacecraft lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:08 p.m. EDT (2208 GMT). To plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage came back to...

SpaceX’s 30th robotic Dragon cargo ship is headed back home to Earth. Dragon departed from the International Space Station (ISS) today (April 28) at 1:10 p.m. EDT (1710 GMT), while the two spacecraft were flying over Thailand. It was orbital nighttime in that locale, so there were no good...