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Posted on March 1, 2026March 2, 2026

Firefly Aerospace scrubs Alpha rocket’s return to flight due to high winds

Firefly Aerospace scrubbed the planned return-to-flight mission of its Alpha rocket on Sunday (March 1) due to high winds. A new target date has not yet been announced.
Posted on February 28, 2026February 27, 2026

Is it legal to own, buy, or sell Apollo mission moon rocks and lunar samples?

NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.
Posted on February 28, 2026February 27, 2026

‘Pushing this competition’: SpaceX’s Starship might not fly on NASA’s newly revamped Artemis 3 mission

NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon —and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.
Posted on February 27, 2026February 28, 2026

February finale: SpaceX wraps up month with three Starlink launches this week

Two Falcon 9 launches from Florida and one from California deployed 83 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, wrapping up February 2026 for the SpaceX network.
Posted on February 27, 2026February 27, 2026

NASA’s Artemis 3 astronauts won’t land on the moon after all. ‘This is just not the right pathway forward.’

NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward.
Posted on February 27, 2026February 26, 2026

Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to the shop | Space photo of the day Feb. 27, 2026

NASA brought its mega moon rocket back into the shop for repairs on Feb. 25, 2026, just as the sun was setting over the Florida Space Coast.
Posted on February 27, 2026February 26, 2026

Curiosity rover finds clues to Mars’ watery past in rocky ‘spiderwebs’

The web-like features are believed to be sculpted by ancient groundwater, offering new clues about the Red Planet's watery past.
Posted on February 27, 2026February 27, 2026

Artemis 2 moon mission shouldn’t launch until late 2026, new analysis of solar superflares suggests

A new method of predicting when a superflare will erupt from the sun suggests that we are in the middle of such a period now — and that could be bad news for the Artemis 2 astronauts.
Posted on February 26, 2026February 26, 2026

US Space Force pauses national security launches on ULA Vulcan rocket due to booster glitch

The U.S. Space Force is putting an indefinite halt on all national security missions aboard United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, following a repeat anomaly with the rocket's side boosters.
Posted on February 26, 2026February 26, 2026

NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report

NASA has replaced two bigwigs in its human spaceflight program, just a week after releasing a report criticizing how the agency handled the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi.

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