Juice slingshots past Earth, testing instruments and snapping photos on its way to Jupiter
ESA's Juice used Earth's gravity to bend its path 20 degrees and gain 3.5 km/s, while calibrating its cameras on our planet and the Moon.
Oct 3, 20262 views
SpaceX Flies Three Rockets in 13 Hours as Starship Reaches Orbit for the First Time
Three launches in 13 hours included a crewed flight and a secret payload; Starship's 14th test reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
Oct 2, 20262 views
NASA Opens Its Streaming Vault for Free 'Movie Night' as Some Open-Web Archives Stay Locked
NASA+ offers documentaries on Europa, Titan and planetary defense at no cost — while four Wikinews interviews remain unreachable behind an automated-access policy.
Oct 2, 20263 views
SpaceX Launches Crew-13 to ISS on Record-Breaking Fast Track
Four astronauts — two NASA, one Canadian, one Russian — lifted off from Cape Canaveral on the fastest US crewed trip to the space station yet.
Oct 1, 20262 views
NASA Taps Modulate Space for $38M Lunar 5G Network With Built-In Wi-Fi 6
Contract covers a '5G Network-in-a-Box' lab demo by 2028 and a flight demonstration on the lunar surface, as NASA builds toward a sustained Moon Base.
Oct 1, 20262 views
NASA Expands Moon Base Science Push With New Payloads and $600M Lander Awards
Three PRISM investigations join a growing fleet of commercial landers as NASA races to build a $30 billion outpost near the lunar South Pole.
Oct 1, 20261 views
NASA Heads to Antalya as Space Exploration Push Widens Beyond the Launchpad
As the 77th International Astronautical Congress opens in Türkiye, workforce gaps, public engagement and diversity debates shadow the Artemis era.
Sep 29, 20261 views
NASA's Perseverance Rover Returns With Dispatches From Mars' 'Wild West Frontier'
After a year-long silence on its updates page, the rover is exploring the ancient rocks of Lac de Charmes — terrain older than anything it has sampled before.
Sep 29, 20262 views
NASA Abandons Swift Observatory Rescue as Boost Mission Fails, Telescope Faces Reentry
After a commercial in-space servicing attempt fell short, NASA's 21-year-old gamma-ray hunter will fall back to Earth by year's end.
Sep 28, 20263 views
NASA Opens $500,000 ORBIT Challenge to Students, Betting on Patents and a New Workforce
The 2027 competition hands real NASA intellectual property to university teams, echoing a legacy that runs from shuttle landings to improvised fixes aboard the ISS.
Sep 28, 20265 views