July 18, 2016 Twitter lights up with 95th birthday wishes for John Glenn Pioneering astronaut John Glen is being showered with birthday recognition by people on social media, NASA and residents in his home state of Ohio.
July 18, 2016 No. 5! SpaceX lands another rocket during Space Station cargo launch SpaceX pulled off its fifth rocket landing in the last seven months early Monday morning, this time bringing a booster back during a successful cargo launch toward the International Space Station (ISS).
July 13, 2016 What would it be like to play 'Pokémon Go' in space? As people wandered our office halls, hunting tiny monsters with the newly released augmented-reality game "Pokémon Go," Space.com had only one question: Can astronauts play it in space?
July 5, 2016 NASA's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit A NASA spacecraft is zooming toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system.
July 1, 2016 Juno set to arrive at Jupiter on Fourth of July, a patriotic coincidence Juno blasted off nearly five years ago, in August of 2011. And when it arrives at Jupiter on July 4th, it will be traveling insanely fast.
June 22, 2016 Paul Allen's massive space project is 76 percent done Paul Allen, billionaire earthling and co-founder of Microsoft, has long been obsessed with space, and his pet project Stratolaunch Systems is beginning to bear fruit.
June 22, 2016 India sends 20 satellites into orbit in historic launch India successfully launched a record 20 satellites aboard its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket late on Tuesday, marking another milestone for the country’s burgeoning space program.
June 21, 2016 India set for record satellite launch India is set to launch a record 20 satellites aboard its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket late on Tuesday.
June 15, 2016 SpaceX launches satellites, but rocket landing suffers 'unscheduled disassembly' SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Wednesday morning, successfully deploying two communications satellites but failing to land the rocket’s first stage on a floating barge, a feet the company had said would be hard.
June 13, 2016 On July 4, the Juno spacecraft will finally reach Jupiter NASA’s Juno spacecraft will enter into orbit around Jupiter on the Fourth of July, completing a journey of over 1.7 billion miles that began on August 5, 2011.
