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NASA astronaut Suni Williams holds a mock torch aboard the International Space Station to celebrate the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

NASA astronauts hold their own Summer Olympics in space (video)

By Mike Wall published

NASA astronauts held their own mini-Olympics on the International Space Station to mark the start of the Summer Games here on Earth.

Human Spaceflight
Illustration of a Polaris Dawn crewmember conducting the first-ever private spacewalk.

SpaceX's historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission delayed until mid-August

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX is now eyeing mid- to late August for the launch of the Polaris Dawn astronaut mission, which will feature the first-ever private spacewalk.

Missions
A large glowing blue sphere next to an overlapping smaller grey sphere with a craggy texture

A moon of Uranus could have a hidden ocean, James Webb Space Telescope finds

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have found that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, has some of the most carbon dioxide-rich deposits in the solar system, hinting at a buried water ocean.

James Webb Space Telescope
bright white tendrils of light explode outwards from a solid black circle on a red background

Sun blasts out most powerful flare of current solar cycle, sends massive coronal mass ejection into space (video)

By Meredith Garofalo published

A solar flare on July 23 was even bigger than a previous one that triggered May's global aurora storm, but this one was facing away from Earth on the far side of the sun.

The Sun
A woman smiling in an elegant blue dress stands against a black backdrop with gold EMMY and DAOU logos.

'Wonderlab' host Emily Calandrelli will fly to suborbital space with Blue Origin

By Samantha Mathewson published

The Space Gal is headed into orbit, as part of Space for Humanity's Citizen Astronaut Program.

Private Spaceflight
a cone-shaped spacecraft splashes down into open sea under three parachutes

SpaceX moving Crew Dragon splashdowns to West Coast after multiple space debris incidents

By Elizabeth Howell published

The four astronauts flying aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon are supposed to launch no earlier than Aug. 18 and splash down near Florida. Future crews will go to the west coast due to space junk concerns.

Human Spaceflight
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the International Space Station on Twitter on Sept. 29, 2021. He and two colleagues were relocating a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another at the time.

International Space Station: Live updates

By Elizabeth Howell published

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

International Space Station
A green aurora simes over the curvature of Earth, seen from a low orbit.

ISS astronaut captures auroras and a meteor in stunning timelapse from space (video)

By Samantha Mathewson published

Auroras, stars and a fleeting meteor are captured in a mesmerizing new view from the International Space Station.

Human Spaceflight
illustration of a robotic probe in space with the sphere of earth in the background

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe flies by Earth on Aug. 20, and it may be visible to some skywatchers

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

Europe's JUICE Jupiter spacecraft will swing past Earth on Aug. 20, and some skywatchers in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean region may be able to see it.

Stargazing
Two cube-shaped satellites rendezvous is black space. A visualization of the ELSA-M space junk collector and its target, a satellite from the OneWeb megaconstellation.

Astroscale's space debris removal demo mission funded for 2026 launch

By Tereza Pultarova published

Astroscale's ELSA-M demo space junk collector will remove a defunct OneWeb satellite from orbit in 2027.

Satellites
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