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Canada aims to provide medical technologies for deep space exploration
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with cargo transportation spacecraft Progress МS-20 blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, June 3, 2022. AP hide caption
A new report finds 'shortfalls' in how Trump decided to move U.S. Space Command
A supermoon rises over Washington, D.C., in November 2016. After this week's Strawberry Supermoon, there will be two more in July and August. Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Some of NASA's first female astronaut candidates take a break from training in Florida in 1978. From left: Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathryn Sullivan, Rhea Seddon. NASA hide caption
An illustration of the view at dawn on June 3 and 4. Sky & Telescope illustration hide caption
Marcia Belsky: That time when NASA (almost) sent Sally Ride to space with 100 tampons
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 11, 2021 in Spruce Knob, W.Va. Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP hide caption
A bounty of black holes surround the Sagittarius A supermassive black hole which lies at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. NASA/CXC/Columbia Univ./C. Hailey et al. hide caption
Parachutes for spacecraft are challenging to design and worrisome to engineers
The International Space Station depends on a mix of U.S. and Russian parts. "I hope we can hold it together as long as we can," says former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly. NASA hide caption