Boeing Starliner launch: Astronauts ready for historic first crewed mission

On Monday night, if all goes well, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be making history as the first NASA astronauts to crew a Starliner mission.

Significant challenges remain before NASA attempts to launch humans into space during future Artemis mission

NASA previously announced the earliest Artemis II could launch would be September 2025. The report said by launch date, NASA will have spent more than $55 billion on the program. Premature preparation of the Space Launch System could lead to increased delays beyond the 2025 launch date.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this weekend: Where and how to watch

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, originating from comet 1P/Halley's debris, will reach its peak this weekend, offering stargazers a celestial spectacle with up to 50 shooting stars per hour.

Earth’s quasi-moon Asteroid Kamo'oalewa likely blasted out of this giant moon crater

Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international group of scientists says they have determined where this mysterious object came from on the moon's surface. 

No 'jitters' for NASA astronauts preparing to launch on Boeing Starliner spacecraft

Two Navy test pilots who became NASA astronauts will take their ultimate flight Monday as they will be the first to launch on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. 

Boeing readies first-ever crewed Starliner launch
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Boeing is gearing up for an unprecedented milestone as it prepares for its inaugural crewed launch from the Space Coast aboard the Starliner spacecraft.

SpaceX Starship in Florida: Musk envisions 2 'Mechazilla' launch towers at Cape Canaveral

During a presentation to SpaceX employees in early April, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk provided a comprehensive update on the company's strategy for interplanetary colonization with its sights firmly set on Mars.

NASA astronauts land for upcoming launch
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Starliner astronauts landed on the Space Coast Thursday afternoon. The duo is two weeks away from leaving earth and launching on Boeing?s highly anticipated and highly delayed Starliner spacecraft.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches more satellites into space

Nearly two dozen of SpaceX's Starlink satellites were launched into space Tuesday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

Voyager 1: NASA may have just managed to save its historic spacecraft

Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 and are NASA’s oldest and most distant robotic space travelers. An issue with Voyager 1’s code that began in November meant the spacecraft was unable to send back data from interstellar space. After some creative engineering to find a solution, Voyager teams got the first usable data from the spacecraft on April 20.