Space

Crew onboard the Russian Soyuz capsule, a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) that took place on Sept. 11, became record-breaking space residents this week, as humanity waves up to the now 19 humans living and working in space. It’s the largest group living in space concurrently in history. …

The most volcanic world in our solar system has sprouted a new volcano. And its lava flows are enormous. Jupiter’s molten moon Io has been surveyed by a number of passing spacecraft, allowing planetary scientists to see changes on the surface. Recently, NASA‘s Juno mission made the closest swings by …

Jay Buckey flew to space as a NASA astronaut in 1998. Decades later, he watched one of his experiments leave Earth on a SpaceX rocket. The space company’s Polaris Dawn endeavor — a private venture funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman — is a five-day mission around Earth featuring an ambitious …

For the first time in history, a private citizen has left the confines of a spaceship while flying through space — an exercise that before now was only performed by trained astronauts. The unprecedented commercial spacewalk was part of SpaceX‘s Polaris Dawn mission, which sent four civilians into orbit to …

SpaceX‘s Polaris Dawn mission finally launched on Tuesday, after a series of delays pushed back its commencement date. Now the crew of the private spaceflight are scheduled to take the first ever commercial spacewalk — and the entire thing will be livestreamed so we can watch it here from Earth. …

Nearly a quarter century ago, four identical spacecraft launched into space. Now, they’re coming home. The European Space Agency sent a plane to capture footage of the first of four Cluster mission satellites reentering Earth’s atmosphere on Sept. 8. “The first recorded observation of a satellite reentry from a high-speed …

Following NASA‘s tense decision to pull its astronauts off Boeing’s spaceship for their ride home, lots of eyes will be on Starliner this evening to see how it performs a landing uncrewed. The capsule, which launched in June, took test pilots Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams to the …

Did the cosmos just hand us a meme that encapsulates our feelings about the universe and our place within it? At times it seems as though astronomers will forever find enigmas about space without ever providing satisfying answers.But in this case, the James Webb Space Telescope has found a riddle …

UPDATE: Sep. 2, 2024, 7:00 p.m. EDT In a statement released to Mashable on Monday, Sept. 2, NASA said the pulsing sound astronaut Butch Wilmore heard coming from a speaker inside Starliner was the result of an audio configuration between the International Space Station and Starliner and has since stopped. …

With Boeing’s troubled spaceship deemed too risky to bring its crew home from space, NASA has bumped the two female astronauts set for the next International Space Station rotation to free up seats. Zena Cardman, who would have been the SpaceX Crew-9 commander, and Stephanie Wilson were cut from the …