Blue Origin marked a major milestone today, successfully launching its 70th passenger to space aboard its New Shepard suborbital rocket. The brief yet spectacular mission, NS-33, took off at 9:39 a.m. CDT (10:39 a.m. EDT / 1439 GMT) from the company's Launch Site One in the West Texas desert.
Chinese scientists are proposing a bold and innovative mission to closely observe asteroid 99942 Apophis as it makes a historic near-Earth pass in 2029. The mission, dubbed the Apophis Recon Swarm (ARS), would dispatch a fleet of miniature spacecraft—cubesats—on multiple flybys to study the asteroid’s physical and internal characteristics, while also advancing global planetary defense capabilities.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued a stern warning to billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, threatening legal action over what she described as environmental contamination and falling debris from rocket launches conducted near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rocket Lab successfully launched a classified satellite into orbit early Friday, completing its second Electron mission in less than 48 hours and marking a record pace for its New Zealand launch site.
A highly anticipated test firing of a next-generation solid rocket booster intended for NASA’s Artemis moon missions ended with an unexpected anomaly on Wednesday, raising new questions about the future of the Space Launch System (SLS) amid shifting budget priorities.
Veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the United States’ most experienced space traveler, has returned to orbit early Wednesday morning at the helm of a groundbreaking private mission. Accompanied by three first-time space travelers from India, Poland, and Hungary, Whitson launched aboard Crew Dragon Grace — a brand-new SpaceX capsule — on Axiom Space’s fourth non-government mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
China successfully launched its newest communications satellite, ChinaSat-9C, on Friday, marking a significant step in upgrading its geostationary satellite fleet and strengthening national broadcasting capabilities.
In a twist that challenges decades of assumptions, researchers have discovered that dust from the Moon may be less harmful to human lungs than the air pollution commonly inhaled in modern cities.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched its second production batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites, marking another critical milestone in Amazon’s ambitious push to build a global broadband internet constellation in low Earth orbit.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has resumed full-time propulsion as of June 16, after a successful switch to a backup xenon propellant line resolved a months-long issue with its primary propulsion system. The spacecraft, launched in October 2023, is en route to its namesake target — the asteroid Psyche — a metal-rich body believed to be the exposed core of a protoplanet.
Chinese commercial space company Landspace has taken a major step toward launching its next-generation reusable rocket, the Zhuque-3, with a successful full-scale static fire test of its first stage. The test, conducted on June 21 at 12:00 p.m. Beijing time (0400 UTC), marks a significant achievement in China’s race to develop recoverable, methane-fueled orbital launch vehicles.
Firefly Aerospace has announced plans to launch a commercial lunar imaging service that could transform how governments and private entities access high-resolution images of the Moon. The new service, named Ocula, is being positioned as a potential supplement—or even successor—to NASA’s long-serving Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been operational since 2009.
