January 16, 2018 Eyes on the sky: When and where will China's rogue space station fall to Earth? Scientists across the globe are carefully monitoring China’s discarded Tiangong-1 space station, which will plunge into Earth’s atmosphere at some point in the coming months.
January 15, 2018 SpaceX dragon capsule returns to Earth after Space Station delivery A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship left the International Space Station and returned to Earth Saturday (Jan.
January 15, 2018 How John Young smuggled a corned-beef sandwich into space While John Young, who died on Jan. 5 at age 87 , is famous for his Apollo 16 moonwalks and his role as commander of the first space shuttle mission, the NASA astronaut is also remembered for a small scandal he triggered with a sneaky act: smuggling a corned-beef sandwich into space.
January 9, 2018 SpaceX says rocket performance OK in secret satellite launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX defended its rocket performance during the weekend launch of a secret U.S. satellite, responding Tuesday to media reports that the satellite codenamed Zuma was lost.
January 9, 2018 Zuma satellite launched by SpaceX reportedly 'total loss,' failed to launch into orbit A U.S. spy satellite which was supposed to launch into orbit on Sunday night is expected to be a “total loss” after it reportedly didn’t make it.
January 8, 2018 SpaceX launches rocket carrying classified payload for U.S. government SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying into orbit a top-secret satellite codenamed Zuma.
January 4, 2018 Asteroid-bound spacecraft snaps color pic of Earth and Moon About halfway through its two-year trek to the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took some stunning images of Earth and the moon as it whizzed past its home planet last fall.
January 3, 2018 Rogue Chinese space station expected to hurtle toward Earth in 2018, researchers say The new year could bring a major scare: the expected crash of an 18,740-pound Chinese space station headed toward Planet Earth.
January 3, 2018 Astronauts identify mystery microbes in space for the 1st time NASA astronauts successfully sequenced the DNA of microbes found aboard the International Space Station, marking the first time unknown organisms were sequenced and identified entirely in space.
January 2, 2018 China's next big space mission: the far side of the moon This year, China plans to boldly go where no superpower has previously been before — the far side of the moon.
