- China launched 3 astronauts bound for the country's homemade space stationby Steve Inskeep on April 26, 2024 at 9:10 am
China blasted three astronauts into space on Thursday. The mission is part of an ambitious program which will help pave the way for China to put a person on the moon before 2030.
- China launches a new crew to its space station, advancing toward lunar missionby John Ruwitch on April 25, 2024 at 1:52 pm
Three astronauts will spend six months on China's space station. Some experts worry China's ambitious space program could pose a threat to U.S. space superiority and military effectiveness.
- He missed a chance to be the first Black astronaut. Now, at 90, he's going into spaceby Scott Neuman on April 25, 2024 at 9:00 am
Edward J. Dwight Jr. is set to be on the next Blue Origin rocket into space. The rare opportunity comes more than six decades after he was passed over to become a NASA astronaut.
- Good news from Voyager 1, which is now out past the edge of the solar systemby Nell Greenfieldboyce on April 23, 2024 at 9:23 pm
In mid-November, Voyager 1 suffered a glitch, and it's messages stopped making sense. But the NASA probe is once again sending messages to Earth that make sense.
- A hunk of space junk crashed through his roof in Florida. Who should pay to fix it?by Bill Chappell on April 23, 2024 at 7:57 pm
"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been circling the Earth for three years.
- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, is finally 'phoning home' againon April 23, 2024 at 10:49 am
The space probe contacted ground control for the first time in five months with status updates on its engineering systems. A month ago a NASA team discovered corrupted code caused a lapse in contact.
- Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making senseby Nell Greenfieldboyce on April 23, 2024 at 9:00 am
After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, Voyager 1 is once again able to communicate with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.
- The Lyrids meteor shower is peaking. Here's how to enjoy it with a bright moonby Huo Jingnan on April 21, 2024 at 8:40 pm
The Lyrids meteor shower is active until April 29 and is peaking overnight from Sunday into Monday. To see it, it's best to find an area with trees or a mountain blocking out the moon.
- The space junk was supposed to disintegrate in the atmosphere — it didn'ton April 18, 2024 at 11:22 am
NASA says the space debris that crashed into a home in Naples, Fla., last month was part of a pallet of old batteries jettisoned from the International Space Station three years ago.
- COMIC: Our sun was born with thousands of other stars. Where did they all go?by Connie Hanzhang Jin on April 18, 2024 at 9:00 am
Our sun was born in a cosmic cradle with thousands of other stars. Astrophysicists say they want to find these siblings in order to help answer the question: Are we alone out there?