Mike Wall

7 hours ago | space.com | Mike Wall

China's latest astronaut crew has reached its orbital destination. The three-person Shenzhou 20 mission arrived at China's Tiangong space station today (April 24) at 11:49 a.m. EDT (1549 GMT), beginning a six-month stay aboard the outpost. Their off-Earth chase was brief: Shenzhou 20 launched atop a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China today at 5:17 a.m. EDT (0917 GMT; 5:17 p.m. Beijing time).

11 hours ago | space.com | Mike Wall

The Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong thanks to an amazing design, operations and science team — and a cadre of spacewalking astronauts. Hubble launched to Earth orbit 35 years ago today (April 24) with a flawed primary mirror, an image-blurring defect that made the scope the butt of jokes and put its entire ambitious mission in jeopardy. But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993.

1 day ago | yahoo.com | Mike Wall

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-145 mission from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on April 20, 2025. | Credit: SpaceXSpaceX continues to keep up its torrid launch pace. Elon Musk's company sent three of its Falcon 9 rockets to orbit from three different pads over the course of a day and a half.

1 day ago | space.com | Mike Wall

SpaceX continues to keep up its torrid launch pace. Elon Musk's company sent three of its Falcon 9 rockets to orbit from three different pads over the course of a day and a half. The action began on Sunday (April 20), when a Falcon 9 launched the NROL-145 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base. It was the 10th flight in service of the NRO's new "proliferated architecture" of spy satellites.

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Mike Wall

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASAA SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) this morning (April 22), wrapping up about 28 hours traveling on orbit to close the gap between them. Elon Musk's company launched its 32nd robotic resupply mission to the ISS for NASA early Monday morning (April 21), sending a Dragon freighter aloft from Florida's Space Coast.