The five-day push will accommodate high levels of activity on the International Space Station. The first crewed launch of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule has been delayed by an additional five days, to May 6. NASA and Boeing had been targeting May 1 for the highly anticipated Starliner mission...

The flaming wreck appears to be the orbital module from China’s Shenzhou 15 astronaut mission, which launched in November 2022. A big piece of Chinese space junk crashed to Earth over Southern California early Tuesday morning (April 2), putting on quite a show for observers in the Golden...

An unusual “horned” comet is now visible in the night sky and may even make a rare appearance during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. An unusual “horned” comet is now visible in the night sky — and it may even make a rare appearance during the 2024 total solar...

NASA’s sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe peered into the depths of a coronal mass ejection (CME) for the first time, revealing new details within the violent solar phenomenon. Every so often, the sun’s simmering magnetic field burps colossal clouds of plasma out into the space beyond. These...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Monday (April 1). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Bad weather scuttled two previous tries at the launch. This time the weather cooperated and the Falcon 9...

JWST quickly spotted signs of a forming exoplanet — but not the one that astronomers had expected to see. Astronomers are hunting for planets in the process of forming around infant stars using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The powerful space telescope quickly delivered the goods, albeit in...

The ULLYSES program is the largest Hubble operation ever performed. Now that observations are over, scientists can dive into a treasure trove of data. In December 2023, the Hubble Space Telescope completed its largest program since launching in 1990. With this program, the telescope made...

SpaceX had a busy Saturday evening (March 30), launching two rockets from Florida less than five hours apart. The action started at 5:52 p.m. EDT (2152 GMT) on Saturday, when a Falcon 9 rocket sent the Eutelsat 36D telecommunications satellite skyward from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC)...

Satellites have detected a massive solar flare powerful enough to ionize part of Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists spotted the flare erupting from the bottom of the sun on Thursday (March 28), using satellites from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to the...