Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) carried out the first gliding approach and landing test of their Dream Chaser spacecraft at Edwards Air Force Base on October 26. The vehicle dropped from its carrier aircraft at 11:10 am, and carried out gliding and landing maneuvers flawlessly. However, the left…| New Atlas
Currently, there are 1 to 2 Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day. Soon there will be more. Satellites give us enormous benefits that are also multiplying. But are we doing enough to protect our delicate future in near-Earth space? Find out in this video as EarthSky’s Dave Adalian talks with spaceflight expert Jonathan McDowell! Watch in the player above.| EarthSky
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.| Behind The Black - Robert Zimmerman
During its flyby of Mars in March 2025, the Europa Clipper spacecraft tested its radar instrument. This is a small section of the image it successfully produced of Mars’ surface. See the full radargram. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UT-Austin.| EarthSky
Crew-11 launched toward the space station on August 1, 2025. Image via Greg Diesel Walck.Update: The Crew-11 mission launched today just before 12 p.m. EDT in Florida.| EarthSky
ANOMALY! Just before Ship 36 was set to Static Fire, it blew up at SpaceX Masseys!| EarthSky
ESA has unveiled the 1st images from Proba-3, an ambitious mission using 2 satellites to reveal the sun's outer atmosphere through artificial solar eclipses. The post First images from Proba-3, the 2-part sun observer first appeared on EarthSky.| Sun | EarthSky
The Japanese lunar exploration company ispace attempted to land on the moon today, June 5, 2025. Watch a replay of the livestream in the player above. The livestream ended with the company still trying to communicate with the lander. It’s not looking good.| EarthSky
SpaceX’s Starship Flight 9 launched from Starbase in south Texas on May 27, 2025. The 1st-ever reused Super Heavy booster exploded during its landing burn over the Gulf of Mexico. Starship itself touched orbit, then lost control and tumbled back to Earth. Image is a video still via SpaceX live feed/ Videos from Space.At 18:37 CDT (23:37 UTC) last night (May 27, 2025), SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifted off for the 9th time. This was the first attempt to launch Starship on a reused booster st...| EarthSky
Watch Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. It has an all-female crew. The launch window will open at 8:30 a.m. CDT on Monday, April 14.| EarthSky
The lunar lander Athena captured this selfie as it orbited the moon on March 3, 2025. Earth is the small world in the distance. Athena landed on the moon on March 6, 2025. Unfortunately, like the Intuitive Machines’ mission before it, it appears to be on its side. Image via Intuitive Machines (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).Athena landed on the moon, but on its side| EarthSky
https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/03/Screen-Recording-2025-03-06-160332.mp4| EarthSky
NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center is the largest single-story building in the world. Here’s a peek inside NASA’s VAB showing the solid rocket boosters that will lift the Artemis 2 mission into space. The Artemis missions seek to return astronauts to the moon. Image via Greg Diesel Walck.An exclusive peek inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building| EarthSky
Watch sunset on the moon as the Blue Ghost mission comes to a close. Here, we see a final sequence as the sun sets below the moon’s surface. The white dot in the distance is Venus, and the bright object that looks like a second sun is Earth with sunlight shining off it. Video via Firefly Aerospace.| EarthSky
RIP booster ? pic.twitter.com/jmlt1VoKb8| EarthSky
EarthSky was there yesterday (Wednesday, July 24, 2024), when the Artemis 2 core rocket stage was unloaded at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It had been transported by barge from New Orleans over the previous week. The rocket core was moved to NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be integrated into the Space Launch System for the Artemis 2 moon mission. This mission – the 1st crewed mission for Artemis – will launch no earlier than September 2025.| EarthSky
Falcon 9 returns to flight and delivers 23 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit pic.twitter.com/lLUk0ADIwY| EarthSky
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft – which had been docked at the International Space Station all summer, after leaving 2 astronauts stranded there – returned uncrewed to Earth last night. NASA reported its landing at 10:01 p.m. MDT on September 6 (4:01 UTC on September 7), at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Meanwhile, the astronauts are still at the ISS … waiting to come home. Image via NASA.| EarthSky
The X-37B spaceplane mission 7 launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, designated USSF-52, on Thursday night, December 28, 2023. Greg Diesel-Walck captured this image at the launch site and said: “The dew tonight was insane”.The U.S. Space Force’s robot spaceplane – the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle – lifted off on its seventh mission Thursday night, December 28, 2023, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It rode to its highest orbit yet aboard a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket,...| EarthSky
