Virgin Galactic will work with NASA to train private astronauts for orbital spaceflights By Chelsea Gohd NASA and Virgin Galactic have signed a Space Act Agreement, under which they will work together to support commercial space activity.
NASA wants to send astronauts on private suborbital spaceflights By Elizabeth Howell NASA's administrator says he wants to step up commercial flight opportunities for astronauts.
Astronaut-aquanaut connects with space station after deep sea dive By Robert Z. Pearlman When ISS astronauts call Earth, they refer to it as "space to ground." For a call they made to Kathy Sullivan, the first astronaut to dive to the deepest point on Earth, a different term was merited.
Kathy Lueders, NASA's 1st female spaceflight chief, will guide a US return to the moon By Hanneke Weitering She expects 'really big things' from future women in space.
NASA's next Mars rover is just one month away from launch By Mike Wall The launch of NASA's next Mars rover, the life-hunting, sample-caching Perseverance, is just a month away.
Astronauts and NASA pay homage to Juneteenth By Chelsea Gohd Astronauts have taken to social media to commemorate today's holiday — Juneteenth.
China reveals details of next-gen crew spacecraft's 1st test flight By Andrew Jones A first glimpse inside the prototype of China's next-generation crew-carrying spacecraft has been provided in Beijing following a successful uncrewed test flight in May.
Space Perspective wants to take tourists on balloon rides to the stratosphere By Mike Wall Space Perspective aims to send paying customers and payloads to the stratosphere in its Spaceship Neptune, a balloon-borne capsule that's scheduled to make its first test flights early next year.
Vice President Pence congratulates history-making NASA astronauts in call to space station By Mike Wall Pence checked in to see how Demo-2 crewmembers Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are adjusting to life in orbit.
NASA says SpaceX can reuse Crew Dragon capsules and rockets on astronaut missions: report By Mike Wall NASA has approved the use of preflown Crew Dragon capsules and Falcon 9 rockets on SpaceX's crewed missions to the International Space Station.
NASA's next Mars rover carries tribute to healthcare workers fighting coronavirus By Mike Wall NASA's next Mars rover will bear to the Red Planet a tribute to brave healthcare workers fighting a pandemic here on Earth.
Perseverance: NASA’s Mars 2020 rover By Nola Taylor Redd The Perseverance rover, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, will pick up where Curiosity left off, searching for signs of past life, but with better technology.
Charles Bolden, NASA's first Black administrator, speaks out on systemic racism By Chelsea Gohd NASA's first and (so far) only Black administrator says he is angry and hopeful as he reflects on the world today.
UAE seeks new astronauts to expand human spaceflight program By Meghan Bartels Less than a year after sending its first-ever astronaut to space aboard a Russian capsule, the United Arab Emirates is combing through a second batch of applications from hopeful successors.
SpaceX wants to build an offshore spaceport near Texas for Starship Mars rocket By Mike Wall SpaceX is hiring "offshore operations engineers" to help develop spaceports for its Mars-colonizing Starship transportation system.
China postpones launch of Beidou global navigation satellite By Elizabeth Howell China will have to wait to finish a long-awaited upgrade of its global navigation satellite system.
Shuttle-flown solid rocket segments arrive in Florida for Artemis 1 SLS rocket By Robert Z. Pearlman A rocket booster segment that helped launch the Hubble Space Telescope, the space shuttle Endeavour and John Glenn has arrived back in Florida to lift off with the Space Launch System.
China's Chang'e 4 moon rover mission is back in action on lunar farside By Andrew Jones China's Chang'e 4 mission is back in action for its 19th lunar day of activity on the far side of the moon, with the Yutu 2 rover set to scope out a new crater.
Solar Orbiter spacecraft makes its 1st flyby of the sun By Meghan Bartels Solar Orbiter, a joint mission by NASA and the European Space Agency, has hit its first big milestone of its sun-watching mission — and the spacecraft will soon have pictures to prove it.
NASA lit a fire in space to keep future astronauts safe (video) By Elizabeth Howell NASA deliberately set a fire in a spacecraft to see if a "smoke eater" and carbon dioxide scrubber could make future moon missions safer for astronauts.
