Japanese cargo ship reaches space station

A Japanese supply ship loaded with 5 tons of cargo is now attached to the space station

• Sep 27, 2018

Mars rover spotted from orbit after going silent

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the still-silent Opportunity rover on the surface of the red planet

• Sep 25, 2018

SpaceX: Japanese billionaire to be first "private passenger" on moon mission

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the company will launch a private citizen on a flight around the moon as soon as 2023

• Sep 18, 2018

NASA laser probe to measure ice, glaciers, oceans

NASA's $1 billion ICESat-2 spacecraft will measure sea and ground ice thickness around the world

• Sep 14, 2018

Space station commander flatly denies crew caused leak

Station commander Drew Feustel says his crew had nothing to do with causing a recent leak, which Russia blamed on human error

• Sep 11, 2018

Russians blame Soyuz leak on human error

A small leak in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station apparently was caused by human error, investigators say

• Sep 4, 2018

Space station leak prompts quick repair

NASA said the space lab's six-member crew was in no danger

• Aug 30, 2018

Asteroid probe captures first images of its distant target

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on course to slip into orbit around an asteroid called Bennu on New Year's Eve

• Aug 24, 2018

Pence rallies NASA with visions of moon missions

Vice President Mike Pence told Johnson Space Center workers NASA will return to the moon in the 2020s

• Aug 23, 2018

NASA hopeful Mars rover will phone home

A dust storm is easing on Mars, and NASA is hopeful its Opportunity rover will wake up and phone home

• Aug 21, 2018

Solar probe launched on historic sun-study mission

NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe takes off on a flight to "touch the sun"

• Aug 12, 2018

How to watch the 2018 Perseid meteor shower

NASA's Bill Cooke tells CBS News that spectators are in store for a better watching experience this year due to diminished moonlight

• Aug 11, 2018

Space Force is in the market for a logo and President Trump is letting Americans vote

There's one shaped like a shield, a few with cartoonish spaceships and one emblazoned with the words "Mars awaits"

• Aug 9, 2018

Pence lays out plans for Trump's "Space Force" to be installed by 2020

Trump officially directed the Defense Department to establish this sixth branch of the military in June, saying the space force would ensure American dominance in the final frontier

• Aug 9, 2018

NASA names first astronauts for Boeing, SpaceX spaceships

NASA assigns astronauts to the first four flights of new space station-bound Boeing and SpaceX ferry ships

• Aug 3, 2018

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