November 21, 2017 Runaway Chinese space station is going to be monitored by an international campaign Skywatchers are on the lookout for China's Tiangong-1 space lab — and the seeing is good.
November 20, 2017 Apollo astronaut watch, stolen in Ecuador, recovered 30 years later A NASA astronaut's wristwatch worn aboard the first Apollo mission in 1968 has been returned to the Smithsonian, nearly three decades after it was stolen from a museum in Ecuador.
November 16, 2017 SpaceX is launching its secret payload today: Here's what we know SpaceX plans to launch a secret payload known as Zuma on Thursday evening (Nov. 16), from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Florida's Space Coast.
November 16, 2017 Mysterious interstellar visitor gets named We now know what to call the mysterious object from interstellar space that zoomed past Earth last month.
November 10, 2017 How vintage rocket tech could be NASA's ticket to Mars and beyond Dangerous radiation. Overstuffed pantries. Cabin fever. NASA could sidestep many of the impediments to a Mars mission if they could just get there faster. But sluggish chemical rockets aren't cutting it — and to find what comes next, one group of engineers is rebooting research into an engine last fired in 1972.
November 9, 2017 First cat in space to receive a proper memorial When it comes to animals that heroically blasted off into space during the space race, names like Laika the dog or Ham the chimpanzee are probably the first that come to mind.
November 3, 2017 NASA's Next Mars rover will have nearly two dozen cameras NASA's next Mars rover will be the sharpest-eyed craft ever to touch down on the Red Planet.
October 31, 2017 Stunning NASA image reveals 'jack-o-lantern' Sun An incredible image released by NASA shows the Sun bearing a striking resemblance to a jack-o-lantern.
October 27, 2017 Mysterious object from deep space has entered the solar system It was first seen just a month ago.
October 18, 2017 Astronaut shows what fidget spinners do in orbit How awesome is a fidget spinner in space, where your body can do all the spinning you want?