The booster or first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land. SpaceX/Flickr (public domain) Elon Musk‘s aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched a resupply...
NASA astronaut Anne McClain.NASA NASA astronaut Anne McClain launched to the International Space Station on Monday and arrived at at 12:33 p.m. EST. Before rocketing into...
A Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX launches a payload toward orbit. SpaceX/Flickr (public domain) SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, will try to...
An illustration of OSIRIS-REx in orbit around asteroid Bennu. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab NASA launched a 1.7-ton probe called OSIRIS-REx toward Asteroid Bennu...
Russell “Rusty” Schweickart, a retired NASA astronaut, speaks at an event in July 2006. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Small asteroids can strike Earth with the force...
An illustration showing Lockheed Martin’s design for its McCandless Lunar Lander. Lockheed Martin It’s been nearly half a century since NASA last landed a spacecraft on...
An illustration of SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR..SpaceX The 2019 calendar is full of major events in spaceflight, planetary science, and astronomy. SpaceX and Boeing...
NASA plans to return to the moon with American companies. NASA The last time NASA landed a spacecraft on the moon was in December 1972. The...
Scientists and engineers inside mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrate the landing of the InSight Mars probe on Monday. NASA JPL/YouTube NASA just successfully...
Mars is one of the most-visited yet mysterious planets in the solar system.Samantha Lee/Business Insider NASA’s InSight Mars lander will try to land around 3 p.m....
