Mission Control for Your Curiosity

SpaceX is ending Falcon 9 Starlink launches from Florida, shifting all future missions there to Starship.

• Florida transition: Over 260 Starlink...

M stars stand out as prime targets for future biosignature detection due to their abundance and observational advantages, yet their age-dependent...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the highest-resolution wide-area dark matter map yet, achieving 1.00 ± 0.01 arcminute resolution—more...

Launching August 30 on a Falcon Heavy, Roman acts as the wide-angle counterpart to JWST's zoom lens. Its field of view is 100 times larger, enabling...

NASA's Pandora mission has begun scanning 20 alien worlds for water, clouds, and hidden atmospheric secrets.

SpaceX's new $100B Starbase, Louisiana with 10 launch pads will support thousands of annual Starship flights to orbit, the Moon, and Mars, enabling a...

• Repair success: Menon and Adenot installed a new Space-to-Ground antenna during their 6.5-hour spacewalk on August 25, finishing the task started on...

• Hubble's mirror, Roman's reach: Shares the 2.4-meter mirror but delivers a field of view at least 100 times larger in one shot.
• Ahead of schedule:...

The Artemis II crew joins just 30 prior recipients—including Neil Armstrong—as they receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on August 28 for their record lunar flyby that tested systems for humanity's return to the Moon.

Falcon 9 booster B1067 achieved a new reuse record with its 37th flight on the Starlink 10-49 mission, marking the final East Coast Starlink launch...

A 1.27-billion-year-old shergottite meteorite from a previously unsampled pristine Martian source fills an 1.8-billion-year gap in understanding the...

NASA Ames is delivering critical tech to unlock the Roman Space Telescope's goals of probing dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets ahead of its...

Rochester's L3Harris engineers built the technology powering NASA's Roman Space Telescope, set to launch August 30, allowing it to survey a century of cosmic data in weeks and scan the universe a thousand times faster than Hubble from the L2 point.

The Artemis program is shifting from celebrating recent achievements to locking in an ambitious 2028 lunar landing target.

• Artemis II recognition:...

SpaceX secured over $8 billion in U.S. military satellite contracts, boosting Starlink monetization amid relaxed regulations.

Launch momentum...

NASA's new DSS-23 34-meter antenna at Goldstone has joined the Deep Space Network, bolstering communications for more than 40 missions across the...

A new Visual Capitalist article examines how innovative China's space industry is.

• Starbase, Louisiana announced as high-cadence Starship site for Starlink and orbital data centers, targeting thousands of yearly launches.
• $100B...

Two upcoming observatories are accelerating the hunt for habitable worlds while advancing cosmology.

• Roman Space Telescope launches August 30 with...

NASA is excluding cubesat secondary payloads from Artemis 3 because the mission's reconfiguration as a low Earth orbit test removes the ICPS upper...