Mission Control for Your Curiosity

SpaceX is advancing Starship's return with layered preparations at Pad 2.

• Water deluge testing underway as hardware readies for the 12th flight
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A gripping documentary reveals how Robert Goddard's solitary liquid-fueled experiments in the 1920s evolved into Nazi Germany's V-2, the first...

NASA's Curiosity rover faced a rare hitch when a rock unexpectedly stuck to its drill and got uprooted during operations in Jezero Crater. This odd moment underscores the unpredictable challenges of Martian drilling.

Asteroid 2026 JH2 will skim Earth at just 56,700 miles on May 18, yet NASA only found it days earlier, amid an unusual spike in undetected NEO flybys inside the Moon’s orbit.

Chinese firms like Yushi Space are cloning Starship engineering down to stainless steel hulls, methane engines, and tower-mounted booster catches, yet Elon Musk maintains the original still operates in another league.

SpaceX just launched its Dragon cargo spacecraft to the ISS, packed with supplies, scientific equipment, and mission hardware for the crew. This flight underscores the steady NASA-SpaceX partnership keeping station operations and research on track.

Space Reactor 1 - Freedom stands as a key milestone in deep-space propulsion by serving as NASA's first practical demonstrator of nuclear electric...

TESS planet data combined with NASA's new map of nearly 6000 exoplanets paints a fuller picture of distant worlds and their potential for life.

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Tune into NASA's ISS live feed for breathtaking orbital perspectives of our planet.

• See auroras, glowing city lights, lightning storms, and...

NASA's Curiosity rover had a Martian rock lodged in its drill mechanism for days while working on a target, creating an unexpected operational hiccup. This kind of anomaly reminds us how even well-tested rovers face real-world surprises on Mars.

V5 Starship may expand to 18 meters wide, requiring factory rebuilds and new materials to overcome extreme pressures—turning space travel routine and reshaping the entire industry.

• Flyby geometry: Passes 56,000 miles (90,000 km) from Earth late Monday, just a quarter of the Earth-Moon distance, at 5.17 miles per second.
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Starship Flight 12 is nearly ready, with teams racing through final preparations at Starbase.

Recent updates highlight remaining testing that must...

Shifting crew handover to Earth orbit lets Starship HLS launch directly, land on the Moon, and return without lunar rendezvous, tackling the biggest...

Artemis II success serves as the essential launch pad for Mars ambitions, extending the exploratory drive seen in Perseverance's 2021 landing to build a steady cadence for crewed deep-space missions.

JWST is delivering high-resolution maps of enormous filaments and galaxy clusters, tracing cosmic structures back to the universe's earliest epochs.

NASA's Artemis II crew completed a record-setting lunar flyby as the Orion Crew Module separated from the Service Module, reaching 252,756 miles from Earth and 4,067 miles above the Moon.

Starship V3 Debut

• 🔥 Confirmed Launch Date: SpaceX plans to launch the fully redesigned Starship Version 3 on May 19 at 6:30 p.m. EDT from a new...

What makes Starship V3's May 19 flight a pivotal step forward?

Sweeping redesigns target core objectives with structural and performance upgrades,...

May 2026 brings a striking cluster of near-Earth asteroid flybys inside the Moon's orbit.

• Early May saw three objects—2026 JQ1, JO, and JD1—pass at...