August 23, 2016 Back in touch! NASA has just made contact with a lost spacecraft after nearly two years Boy, those folks at NASA never give up. Having lost contact nearly two years ago with a spacecraft millions of miles from Earth, mission operators on Sunday announced they'd successfully reestablished a communications link.
August 19, 2016 Spacewalking astronauts install new front door for visitors Spacewalking astronauts installed a new front door for visitors at the International Space Station on Friday, the crucial first step in welcoming commercial crew capsules as soon as next year.
August 18, 2016 Moon landing photo signed by Apollo 11 astronauts up for auction A photo of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing signed by the mission’s astronauts will be auctioned in the U.K. on Saturday.
August 17, 2016 NASA is going to an asteroid, and it wants your help NASA is seeking research partners for its ambitious asteroid redirect mission, the space agency recently announced.
August 15, 2016 A sixth success! SpaceX again lands rocket on a ship at sea SpaceX has done it again.
August 12, 2016 NASA picks 6 companies to build deep-space habitats The agency wants to build a safe place for humans to live as we spread beyond Earth.
August 5, 2016 Apollo 11 bag used for lunar samples focus of legal dispute A bag carried to the moon aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft and used for the first sample of lunar material is at the center a legal fight after the government mistakenly sold it during the criminal case against the former director of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.
July 29, 2016 Space radiation took a toll on Apollo astronauts, study says The rarified group of men who blasted off from Earth on the Apollo missions have suffered from much higher rates of death by cardiovascular disease than not only other astronauts, but a slice of the U.S. population as a whole, a new study finds.
July 27, 2016 Goodbye Philae: Scientists end comms link with comet probe Rest in peace, Philae. Scientists shut down the communications system between the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae probe on Wednesday.
July 20, 2016 Showing off? SpaceX says it wants to land three rockets at the same time Not content with bringing one rocket safely back to Earth at a time, SpaceX says that with its powerful new Falcon Heavy rocket it'll need to land three at the same time. In preparation, it's now seeking permission to build new landing pads at Cape Canaveral.