January 13, 2021 NASA helps cement plan to return to the moon Though NASA may have trouble returning to the moon by 2024, the U.S. space agency is doing what it can to eventually explore the lunar surface, announcing a formal partnership with Japan for the lunar Gateway.
January 12, 2021 CIA releases UFO ‘Black Vault’ documents early: How to see them online By way of the Freedom of Information Act, thousands of the CIA documents on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), as the government calls them — are now accessible via download at the Black Vault, a website operated by author and podcaster John Greenwald Jr.
January 12, 2021 SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft is on its way back to Earth, set to splashdown off Florida SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station Tuesday morning and is set to splashdown off the coast of Florida Wednesday.
January 12, 2021 'Super Earth': NASA discovers 10B year-old planet unlike any other in deep space A number of planets described as Super-Earths have been discovered in recent memory, but researchers have recently spotted one unlike any other found to date.
January 12, 2021 Strange FM signal discovered coming from one of Jupiter's moons NASA recently extended the life of two of its planetary discovery missions, including the Juno mission to Jupiter. Now it's come to light Juno has discovered an FM signal emanating from one of the gas giant's moons, Ganymede.
January 11, 2021 SpaceX's Cargo Dragon departure from space station postponed because of weather The departure of SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon craft from the International Space Station was scratched on Monday morning because of weather in the splashdown zone off the east coast of Florida.
January 11, 2021 NASA is extending Mars and Jupiter missions, citing notable success Citing discoveries that have "produced exceptional science," NASA has decided to add years to two of its planetary science missions: the Jupiter Juno mission and the Mars InSight lander.
January 8, 2021 Ratcliffe designates Space Force as 18th member of intel community Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Friday announced the Space Force as the 18th member of the intelligence community, in a move to "break down barriers" to information sharing, and to help inform the community's analysis of threats in space.
January 8, 2021 SpaceX completes first rocket launch of 2021, sending up communications satellite Following a very busy 2020 that saw it make a number of achievements, SpaceX completed its first rocket launch of 2021 on Thursday.
January 7, 2021 Forget the Christmas Star: Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn will form rare 'triple conjunction' This weekend, Mercury will join Jupiter and Saturn in what is being dubbed as a "triple conjunction," as the three planets will be within a couple of degrees from one another in the night sky.
