April 30, 2019 'Organs on chips' set for launch to the International Space Station The next resupply mission to the International Space Station will contain sophisticated ‘organs-on-chips’ designed to provide valuable scientific data for future human spaceflight and diseases on Earth.
April 25, 2019 Douglas Cooke: Trump's moon plan is a good one -- too bad his critics (and the media) badly want to derail it Stopping a successful moon mission from occurring under the Trump administration seems to be exactly what some critics want.
April 25, 2019 Russia may soon mothball its most historic launchpad: report Russia may soon decommission its most historic launch site, from which the world's first satellite, Sputnik, was lofted into space.
April 23, 2019 There are toxic fungi in space and no one knows if they're dangerous Potentially dangerous fungi are living on space stations and spacecraft right now — but we have no idea if they're harmful for astronauts and scientists need to do much more research to figure that out.
April 18, 2019 America’s first woman astronaut candidate dead at 88 America’s first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died.
April 17, 2019 The hunt is on for the Lunar Library that crashed on the Moon aboard doomed Beresheet probe When Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crashed on the Moon last week it was carrying the Lunar Library – a 30-million page archive of humanity’s achievements. The team that compiled the library is confident that it survived the crash and wants to locate it on the lunar surface.
April 12, 2019 Weird science: NASA's twins study reveals the strange effects of spaceflight on the body Astronaut Scott Kelly made history in 2016 when he became the first American to spend 12 consecutive months in space after an epic 340-day stint on the International Space Station.
April 12, 2019 Doomed Beresheet spacecraft snapped this picture moments before crashing into Moon Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft snapped a stunning picture of the Moon moments before it crashed into the lunar surface Thursday.
April 12, 2019 SpaceX successfully launches Falcon Heavy, world’s most powerful rocket, for paying customer SpaceX successfully launched its new and improved Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Thursday, more than a year after sending up a "red Roadster" in its initial test flight.
April 11, 2019 Israel's Beresheet spacecraft fails in Moon landing attempt Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft has failed in its audacious attempt to make a Moon landing.
