Maryland lawmakers demand answers for NASA changes at Goddard Space Flight Center (Image Credit: Space.com) Maryland’s entire Democratic congressional delegation is demanding answers from NASA about unexplained building closures, workforce losses and accelerated consolidations at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, during the government shutdown. In a new letter to […]

China’s Shenzhou 20 astronauts head home to Earth after space-debris scare (Image Credit: Space.com) The three astronauts of China’s Shenzhou 20 mission are coming home a bit late — and in a different spacecraft than the one they rode up in. The Shenzhou 20 trio were supposed to leave China’s Tiangong space […]

ISS astronauts take cover from radiation as solar storms spark auroras across the planet (Image Credit: Space.com) It’s not all about pretty auroras when the sun shoots some ejecta our way. As people across the Earth gazed at the sky the past few nights, staring up at the brilliant auroras brought on […]

ESA ships Artemis 4 Orion service module to NASA after Trump tried to cancel it (Image Credit: Space.com) The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed the service module for NASA’s Orion spaceship, which is meant to take the nearly cancelled Artemis 4 mission to the moon. The module, which is supposed to […]

Rocket Lab delays debut of powerful, partially reusable Neutron rocket to 2026 (Image Credit: Space.com) Rocket Lab has pushed the first launch of its medium-lift Neutron rocket to 2026, founder and CEO Peter Beck said during the company’s 2025 Q3 earnings call Monday (Nov. 10). The vehicle is now expected to arrive […]