2+ hour, 57+ min ago   (436+ words) Liftoff is scheduled for 8:19 a.m. ET on Sunday (Jan. 11). SpaceX will launch NASA's next exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, is scheduled to…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (276+ words) What's Coming in Spaceflight This Year On Episode 192 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik looks forward to 2026, which promises to be the most exciting year in the new space age yet! Shining bright is the prospect…...

4+ hour, 57+ min ago   (200+ words) Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines. Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station to…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago   (250+ words) The 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence will also feature the historic Artemis 2 astronaut mission around the moon. The U.S. capital was just moonstruck " or at least, the Washington Monument was. An image of NASA's iconic Saturn V rocket was…...

7+ hour, 57+ min ago   (268+ words) Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth. Astronaut Kimiya Yui captured a jaw-dropping timelapse video showcasing the beauty of low-Earth orbit as seen from the International Space Station. Yui's 300th cumulative day in space…...

12+ hour, 14+ min ago   (167+ words) Liftoff occurred at 4:41 p.m. ET on Friday (Jan. 9). SpaceX's third mission of 2026 is in the books. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday (Jan. 9) at 4:41 p.m. EST (2141 GMT)....

17+ hour, 26+ min ago   (506+ words) Launch could come as soon as Feb. 6. The first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years remains on track to launch as soon as Feb. 6. NASA announced on Friday evening (Jan. 9) that it plans to roll the Space Launch System…...

20+ hour, 27+ min ago   (621+ words) A three-person crew was the ISS norm back in the olden days. The International Space Station will soon be down to a skeleton crew. On Thursday (Jan. 8), NASA announced that it will bring the four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission…...

21+ hour, 57+ min ago   (612+ words) "These nine objects are special." Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd observations show features of both stars and galaxies, leading to researchers referring to them as "platypuses" after the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (289+ words) NASA will return four astronauts to Earth early from the International Space Station due to a medical concern with one of the Crew-11 astronauts. Here's the latest news. NASA's plan to rturn the four Crew-11 astronauts home early from the…...