Chang’e 5 blasts off on a Long March 5 heavy lift rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center on Nov. 23. Credit: CNSA/CAS China is on track to return to Earth the first lunar surface samples in more than four decades. On Nov. 23, the China National Space Administration...
Above: The crew of Resilience inside the Crew Dragon cockpit. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX broke new ground in space flight again on Nov. 15, 2020, after successfully launching a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft....
An artist rendering shows the location of a lunar crater where water molecules were recently discovered using a NASA telescope. Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. NASA...
Artist rendering of OSIRIS-REx readying itself for landing on Bennu. Credit: NASA Goddard/University of Arizona. NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is on track to retrieve a handful of primordial rock dust for study on Earth. On Oct. 20, 2020, the agency...
When eight of the world’s best and brightest women working in space exploration come together, magic happens. The first Women in Space Exploration (WiSE) Talks series hosted by PISCES featured a week of virtual presentations by women sharing the robotic exploration of...
Above: Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space capsule. Credit: NASA NASA and SpaceX are celebrating a historic launch completed May 30 that successfully brought two U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station aboard...
