Drone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail
A California man has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and photographing the installation.
DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth’s atmosphere
Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.
US Space Force wants a new ‘orbital carrier’ to be a spacecraft launch pad in space
The U.S. Space Force is funding the development of a new "Orbital Carrier" spacecraft that can deploy multiple satellites when needed.
1st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil falls to Earth and explodes seconds into flight
The first orbital rocket launch from European soil ended in an explosion when Isar Aerospace's rocket fell to Earth seconds after launching on March 30.
Katy Perry, Gayle King blast off on star-studded all-female Blue Origin rocket launch on April 14
Blue Origin has announced an April 14 liftoff date for its star-studded, all-female NS-31 mission launching on its New Shepard rocket.
NASA says removal of ‘first woman, person of color’ language from Artemis websites ‘does not indicate’ moon mission crew change
NASA websites no longer state that the Artemis 3 mission will aim to land the first person of color and the first woman on the moon, but the agency says this does not reflect a change in crew.
Wow! Private lunar lander watches ‘diamond ring’ eclipse from the surface of the moon (photo)
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander witnessed a solar eclipse during what we on Earth saw as a total lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025.
ESA’s Hera probe trains its cameras at Mars’ moon Deimos | Space photo of the day March 13, 2025
During a flyby of Mars on Wednesday (March 12), ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.
NASA’s SPHEREx science probe heads to orbit | Space photo of the day March 12, 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA science probes on March 11, 2025 in a spectacular nighttime liftoff from California after multiple delays.
Wispy comet photobombs ‘rare’ planetary parade above Chile’s Atacama Desert (photos)
The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.