NASA

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
An unspecified but nonemergency concern has prompted an early end to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission.
Operations & Safety

By Garrett Reim
Mitsubishi Corp. has increased its investment in the Starlab Space commercial space station joint venture.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
NASA head Isaacman met with SpaceX and Blue Origin officials to get a better sense of how to speed up the timelines around efforts to return to the Moon.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA completed the early return of International Space Station astronauts when the SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Endeavour capsule splashed down Jan. 15 in the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coast.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Endeavour capsule undocked from the International Space Station on Jan. 14 for a scheduled Jan. 15 splashdown and recovery.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Nearly nine months after the Trump administration released its fiscal 2026 budget proposal to slash NASA funding by 24%, Congress is poised to reject the cuts.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
NASA plans to seek ideas to help advance concepts around bringing crewmembers to Mars and providing a power grid for missions to the planet or the Moon.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Portugal has become the 60th nation to sign the Artemis Accords governing deep-space exploration.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
As part of the SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts’ upcoming early departure from the ISS, command of the orbital outpost will be turned over to a Russian cosmonaut.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA plans to return the International Space Station’s Crew-11 astronauts to Earth early due to a recent medical issue experienced by one of the four.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau, Irene Klotz
NASA is considering cutting short the current Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station due to an undisclosed medical issue with one of the astronauts on the orbital outpost.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s first ISS spacewalk of 2026 is planned for Jan. 8 to prep the orbital lab for the installation of its seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA).
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
NASA plans to resume the search for a wayward Mars science spacecraft that has not been heard from since early December.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
NASA is on track to roll out its second SLS rocket to the launchpad within about 10 days, a key step toward the first crewed flight of an Orion spacecraft.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno, Irene Klotz
AE Industrial Partners will buy a majority stake in the RL-10 upper-stage rocket and space nuclear propulsion businesses from L3Harris for $507 million.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Automated Black Hawk; Eve’s eVTOL flies; Arctic auroral radar; controlling thin wings.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
NASA is looking into the adoption of light detection and ranging (lidar) technology for lunar rover missions and operations on Mars.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
NASA is looking to field a drone-detection and analysis system to help spot activities over the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has demonstrated that the six-wheeled “Percy” Perseverance Mars rover has the durability to operate until at least 2031.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s SPHEREx observatory completed the first of four planned all-sky surveys as 2025 closed out to help answer some key astrophysical questions .
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA is looking to no earlier than Feb. 15, 2026, to launch four crewmembers to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon mission.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
The wind-tunnel trials tested active control of a high-aspect-ratio wing while controlling the thin, flexible wing’s response to maneuver loads and gusts.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
NASA's Jared Isaacman is eager to expedite the Artemis program and that the agency needs to make best use of the ISS' remaining life to seed business for its commercial follow-ons.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has signaled a desire to revitalize the agency’s aeronautics program, calling for more experimental X-planes.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
A NASA safety panel is set to recommend that the agency reexamine the mission objectives of the crewed Artemis III Moon landing mission.
Budget, Policy & Regulation