NASA officials say their Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft has returned to Florida and is preparing for its scheduled launch this fall. NASA's twin spacecraft, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, known as ESCAPADE, returned from California to Florida…
NASA announced the names of 10 new astronaut candidates on Monday after a rigorous selection process from more than 8,000 applicants. The press release stated that the new class of candidates will undergo two years of training before being eligible…
On Sunday, SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The first stage of the launch vehicle, launched into space, returned to the unmanned spacecraft “A…
This weekend will be the best chance of the year to see Saturn when the ringed planet reaches opposition. Opposition occurs when the planet is almost directly opposite the Sun from Earth. At this position, Saturn is closest to Earth…
Northrup Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday after its resupply mission was delayed by engine problems. The spacecraft was captured by the ISS's robotic arm, Canadarm2, at 7:24 a.m. ET, when NASA astronauts…
The current hero is unique in every way. It feels like nature tested a fundamentally new model of a living creature on him, but innovations are not so easy to implement, so the little animal was not launched into wide…