Japan’s 1st HTV-X cargo craft leaves the International Space Station (photo)

Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay.

Russia fixes launch pad damaged by Thanksgiving astronaut launch to the International Space Station

Russia has fixed Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the only pad supporting the nation’s human spaceflight missions. It had been out of commission since late November.

NASA is overhauling its Artemis program. What does that mean for humanity’s return to the moon?

In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.

NASA repairs Artemis 2 moon rocket in hopes of an April lunar launch

NASA has repaired its Artemis 2 rocket, apparently keeping things on track for a possible April launch of the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashes down after historic ISS-boosting mission (video)

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule returned to Earth on Friday (Feb. 27) after spending six months docked with the International Space Station.