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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches Boeing's Starliner capsule.

Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2: Live updates

By Space.com Staff published

Read live updates of Boeing's second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on May 19.

An Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing's Starliner OFT-2 space capsule launches.

Boeing's Starliner OFT-2 spacecraft test flight for NASA in amazing photos

By Space.com Staff published

See photos of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test 2 mission, the second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner astronaut taxi.

European astronaut Matthias Maurer, as seen from the helmet cam worn by NASA astronaut Raja Chari during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on March 23, 2022.

NASA shelves routine spacewalks for now due to leaky spacesuit helmet

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA is suspending all but the most urgent spacewalks after water was found in an astronaut's helmet following a previous excursion.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft sits atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 4, 2022.

Boeing's Starliner on track to launch crucial NASA test flight to space station on Thursday

By Mike Wall published

Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi remains on track to launch on a crucial test flight to the International Space Station on Thursday (May 19).

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft rolls out on May 4, 2022, to meet up with its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

The science and cargo of Boeing's OFT-2 Starliner test flight to space station

By Josh Dinner published

Making sure Starliner is ready to carry astronauts involves a crucial step in the scientific process: experimentation.

Lego Ulysses solar probe set.

Lego's exclusive Ulysses space probe set returns for VIP members May 17!

By Tariq Malik published

Lego will re-release its Ulysses solar probe set exclusively to VIP members on May 17, 2022 while supplies last.

Rosie the Rocketeer will fly aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule this Thursday (May 19).

Rosie the Rocketeer: Meet the dummy flying on Boeing's OFT-2 test flight this week

By Elizabeth Howell published

Rosie will sit in the commander's seat during launch to make sure Starliner's center of gravity is correct.

A ridgeline on Mars in imagery from NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which is aiming to assist the Perseverance rover with future activities. The image was captured April 23, 2022, during the 27th flight of Ingenuity.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity scouts rocky ridge for Perseverance rover

By Elizabeth Howell published

As NASA's Martian helicopter recovers from a communications glitch, data from a past flight is showing a Red Planet ridge in high definition.

An anthropomorphic test device or flight dummy nicknamed Rosie the Rocketeer appears strapped into a seat in Boeing's Starliner capsule.

Space photos: The most amazing images this week!

By Elizabeth Howell published

See the best photos on Space.com this week.

A multispectral satellite images of an artillery battalion actively firing in a southeasterly direction on March 11, 2022 as seen by the WorldView-2 satellite for Maxar Technologies.

Ukraine invasion's impacts on space exploration: Live updates

By Space.com Staff published

The Russia-Ukraine war has already stretched into space, with satellites providing internet and intel and longstanding international relations in outer space shifting rapidly.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats in the International Space Station’s cupola in this photo, which NASA shared on May 9, 2022.

NASA astronaut floats on the space station with Earth in the background (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is seen floating above Earth in a new photo from the International Space Station.

Artist's illustration showing the CAPSTONE spacecraft in a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon.

NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat launch to the moon delayed to May 31

By Elizabeth Howell published

The liftoff of the CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed four days to no earlier than May 31, NASA announced this week.

Boeing's Starliner is backdropped by the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken during rollout activities in support of OFT-2, which is scheduled to launch May 19, 2022.

Watch Boeing's Starliner capsule meet its rocket ahead of crucial test flight (video)

By Elizabeth Howell published

Starliner is set to launch May 19 on OFT-2, an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station.

An image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a behemoth dubbed Sagittarius A*, revealed by the Event Horizon Telescope on May 12, 2022.

Pictures from space! Our image of the day

By Space.com Staff published

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, can be seen in this image taken by the Event Horizon Telescope as part of a ground-breaking campaign.

Colombian Vice President and Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez (left) signs the Artemis Accords.

Colombia signs the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration

By Elizabeth Howell published

It's the 19th country to join NASA in the agreement, following quickly after Bahrain and Singapore in recent weeks.

Conceptual drawing of a Mars Sample Retrieval Lander.

Mars sample return: Could Red Planet life contaminate Earth?

By Leonard David published

Hauling to Earth samples of Mars that might contain Red Planet life is deemed a low risk affair in terms of ecological and public safety — but that risk is not zero.

Boeing's Starliner capsule meets its rocket ahead of the planned OFT-2 test flight to the International Space Station.

Boeing's Starliner is 'go' for crucial May 19 launch to the space station

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA cleared Starliner to launch on the uncrewed OFT-2 mission to the International Space Station, which will assess the capsule's ability to get safely to and from the orbiting lab.

From left to right, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, greet recovery officials shortly after the Crew-3 splashdown on May 6, 2022.

SpaceX's Crew-3 astronauts dish on their action-packed 6 months in orbit

By Elizabeth Howell published

From dodging space debris to welcoming the first-ever fully private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX's Crew-3 mission had a very eventful six months off Earth.

A comparison of views of the same part of the sky as seen by NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready for science. Here's what's next.

By Elizabeth Howell published

The days are ticking away before NASA's massive new observatory shows us the cosmos as we've never seen it before.

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, holds up a model of the space shuttle as the statue sculpted in her honor depicts. The monument will be unveiled at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York on June 17, 2022.

Statue of Sally Ride, first American woman in space, to be unveiled at Cradle of Aviation

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A statue of the first American woman to fly into space will soon stand near where the first lunar landing spacecraft were built, just as NASA works toward landing the first woman on the moon.