SLIM lunar lander briefly resumes operations
Posted: Sat, Feb 3 9:37 AM ET (1437 GMT)
Japan's SLIM lunar lander resumed operations more than a week after landing. The Japanese space agency JAXA said Jan. 28 that the spacecraft had...

Virgin Galactic conducts sixth commercial SpaceShipTwo flight
Posted: Sun, Jan 28 8:57 AM ET (1357 GMT)
Virgin Galactic flew its VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane Friday, taking six people to the edge of space. Unity, attached to its VMS Eve aircraft, took...

NASA ends Ingenuity mission after hard landing
Posted: Sun, Jan 28 8:55 AM ET (1355 GMT)
NASA has ended the mission of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter after it was damaged on its latest flight. NASA announced Thursday that Ingenuity suffered damage...

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Sat, Jan 27 10:02 AM ET (1502 GMT)
SpaceX launched a set of Starlink satellites Tuesday after several days of delays. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California...

Belgium signs Artemis Accords
Posted: Sat, Jan 27 9:58 AM ET (1458 GMT)
Belgium is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords. Belgian government ministers signed the Accords in a ceremony Tuesday on the sidelines of the...

Kinetica-1 rocket launches five imaging satellites
Posted: Sat, Jan 27 9:56 AM ET (1456 GMT)
A Chinese commercial rocket launched five satellites Monday night. The Lijian-1, or Kinetica-1, solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch...

Iran launches satellite
Posted: Sat, Jan 27 9:55 AM ET (1455 GMT)
Iran launched a satellite Jan. 20 in a demonstration of its missile technologies. A Qaem 100 rocket lifted off around 1:30 am EST (0630...

SLIM lands on Moon but loses power
Posted: Sat, Jan 27 9:53 AM ET (1453 GMT)
A Japanese spacecraft landed on the moon Jan. 19 but lost power hours later. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lander touched down at...

SpaceX launches third Axiom Space mission to ISS
Posted: Sat, Jan 20 11:29 AM ET (1629 GMT)
Axiom Space's third private astronaut mission is on its way to the International Space Station after a launch Thursday. A Falcon 9 lifted off...

Peregrine lunar lander reenters
Posted: Sat, Jan 20 11:27 AM ET (1627 GMT)
Astrobotic said its Peregrine lunar lander safety reentered Thursday. The company announced it lost telemetry with the spacecraft at 3:50 p.m. Eastern, about...