Editor’s note, December 11: On Sunday afternoon, NASA’s Orion spacecraft safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The vehicle returned to Earth after a nearly
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SpaceX set to send loads of science to ISS aboard its new Dragon 2 spacecraft
A Dragon capsule attached to the ISS. NASA A new version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will make its first flight to orbit this weekend
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu
The spacecraft’s sampling arm, called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, over the target sample site during a dress rehearsal in April. NASA Four years after
First planet spotted by Cheops spacecraft is an extreme alien world
An illustration of the WASP-189 system. ESA The European Space Agency’s shiny new exoplanet-hunting satellite Cheops (short for Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite) has made its first
NASA spacecraft discovers chunks of asteroid Vesta on asteroid Bennu
Osiris-Rex snapped these views of bright boulders on asteroid Bennu in 2019. They appear to have come from asteroid Vesta. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Asteroid Bennu,
China’s Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft: Everything we know about the daring mission
An artist’s impression of the three spacecraft China will send to Mars in the coming weeks. Nature Astronomy Sometime in late July (or early August,
Elon Musk, SpaceX closer to getting next-gen Starship spacecraft off the ground
SpaceX assembled the shiny pieces of its planned Starship orbital prototype in late 2019. This wasn’t a launch-ready version, but it shows what the spacecraft
