Hanneke Weitering

While many Americans will celebrate the Fourth of July with a day off from work, astronauts at the International Space Station are spending their holiday preparing a cargo ship's return to Earth.

Arianespace lofted another 36 OneWeb broadband satellites today (July 1) in a milestone that will allow the company to begin providing internet access.

NASA will launch dozens of student experiments to space on a sounding rocket today (June 25), and you can watch it live here.

Find maps, diagrams and animations of the "ring of fire" solar eclipse on June 10, 2021.

Two Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (June 2) to prepare an old docking module for disposal.

President Joe Biden's federal budget proposal for 2022 gives NASA more science funding than ever before while continuing to pave the way for the next human moon landing in 2024.

To celebrate the Super Flower Blood Moon, the company behind Bagel Bites says it's giving away "moon deeds."

If you can't see the "Super Flower Blood Moon" eclipse of May 26 in person, check out these live webcasts!

China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so.

China is about to attempt its first landing on the Red Planet.

Red wine stored at the International Space Station for more than a year returned to Earth looking and testing a bit different, and it aged faster than wine on Earth.

The last quarter moon will shine like a big, cheesy taco in the sky tonight (May 4), and Taco Bell is celebrating the lunar phase by giving away free tacos.

A Vega rocket is scheduled to launch a new Earth observation satellite and several other small payloads into orbit for a return-to-flight mission tonight (April 28), and you can watch it live online.

The Mars helicopter will attempt its second flight above the Red Planet on Thursday (April 22) at 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 GMT).

Mark your calendars for April 22!

NASA made a splash today (April 6) by dropping a test version of its Orion crew capsule for future moon missions into a big pool.

A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone's farm in central Washington, local authorities reported Friday (April 2).

China's new Long March 7A rocket successfully launched its first orbital mission after its first attempt one year ago ended with a failure.

NASA's Perseverance rover has brought the "family portrait" bumper sticker fad to a whole new world.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet today (Feb. 18) at 3:55 p.m. EST (2055 GMT) — or at least that's when NASA will find out if it landed.

On Monday (Feb. 1) two NASA astronauts will set out for their second spacewalk together to tackle battery and camera upgrades at the International Space Station.

"Apollo 11: Quarantine," which opens in select IMAX theaters Jan. 29, tells the story of what the Apollo 11 astronauts went through in their first 21 days back on Earth.

Boeing is planning to launch its Starliner astronaut taxi on a second test flight on March 25, company officials announced Monday (Jan. 25).

After casually stopping by President Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday (Jan. 20), Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont set out on a tour of the universe — sort of.

Vaonis, a French startup that raised eyebrows in 2018 with its sci-fi robot-looking Stellina smart telescope, has revealed its latest newbie-friendly astrophotography invention.