Three NASA astronauts and one cosmonaut flew to the International Space Station on Sunday; This was the first of two launches by NASA and the Russian space agency that will replace five of the laboratory’s seven crew members and deliver a new two-person Soyuz ferry ship. The cosmonauts are in the middle of a year-long… Read More »
An illustration of the satellite re-entry next to a picture of polar stratospheric clouds.iStock/Getty Images Plus; Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; insider information Spacecraft burning in the atmosphere leave behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand whether this affects the climate. One risk is that these particles can spark rainbow-colored clouds that damage the ozone layer.… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Those who look at the sky A total solar eclipse will occur across North America on April 8 over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The event will be visible to millions of people, including… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Those who look at the sky A total solar eclipse will occur across North America on April 8 over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The event will be visible to millions of people, including… Read More »
Move over, moon rocks: There’s a new kind of space rock on display at Space Center Houston. The official visitor center of NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Friday, March 1, became only the second place in the world where the public can view a sample of asteroid Bennu collected and returned to Earth by the… Read More »
Simulated image of a satellite collision and the resulting debris.ESA / ID&Sense / ONiRiXEL, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO NASA’s TIMED satellite narrowly avoided a collision with Russia’s dead Cosmos 2221 spacecraft this week. In a worst-case scenario, the impact would launch 7,500 bits of debris into low Earth orbit. As the amount of space debris… Read More »
Scott Kelly recently returned to the International Space Station during a trip to Berlin. Kelly, who became the first American astronaut to spend more than 500 days away from the planet, including nearly a year on the space station during his fourth and final spaceflight in 2016, was in Germany when he stepped back into… Read More »
Richard “Dick” Truly, one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later served as NASA’s eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly’s death on Tuesday, February 27, was confirmed by the Space Explorers Association, a professional organization for the world’s astronauts and cosmonauts, which counts Truly as a… Read More »
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps He had an unusual path to space: He waited an extra six years to fly. Epps will finally fly to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission as early as Saturday night, March 2, marking the second long-duration mission by a Black woman at the orbiting… Read More »
SpaceX is counting down to launching its first astronaut flight in 2024, and you’ll be able to see it take off live online, but you’ll need to know where and when to watch. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on behalf of NASA for the Crew-8… Read More »