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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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

Automated Black Hawk; Eve’s eVTOL flies; Arctic auroral radar; controlling thin wings.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A NASA safety panel is set to recommend that the agency reexamine the mission objectives of the crewed Artemis III Moon landing mission.

Jared Isaacman was sworn in Dec. 18 as NASA Administrator.

The White House issued a new executive order framing its near-term plans and policy ambitions for the space domain on Dec. 18.

The BAE Systems PHASA-35 will operate monthslong airborne surveillance missions under a new AFRL contract.

SpaceX said one of its Starlink satellites failed on orbit, causing some space debris and now tumbling.

Four DiskSat spacecraft were successfully launched on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle on Dec. 18.

With an eye on China, the Trump administration and Congress find common ground in space while Europe aims for greater autonomy.

The U.S. Senate has completed the confirmation of entrepreneur billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.

As the Trump Administration plans to gut funding for space science programs, a new idea has launched: scientific-telescope-as-service.