On April 15, 2005, NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with a small communications satellite. The launch went according to plan, but the mission ended abruptly when the spacecraft collided with the satellite. The...

On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to orbit the Earth. This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the "space race" after it launched the first...

On April 8, 1964, NASA launched the first uncrewed test flight of the new Gemini spacecraft. This was the very first mission of Project Gemini, which would later send crews of two into orbit. NASA flew a total of 12 Gemini missions, 10...

On April 5, 1973, NASA launched the Pioneer 11 mission into the outer solar system. Pioneer 11 would become the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn, and it flew by Jupiter and the asteroid belt along the way. It launched about a month...

NASA tested the Orion spacecraft forward bay cover's ejection mechanism at the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Credit: NASA/Jordan Salkin and Quentin Schwinn | edited by Space.com

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | edited by Steve Spaleta

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency

The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members formerly aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, moved their Crew Dragon capsule to another docking port to make way for a new cargo Dragon arrival. Credit: SpaceX

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has come within the sights of the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The spacecraft captured a coronal mass ejection generated from a powerful X1.8-class solar flare.



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Retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau describes the time he picked up a spinning satellite in space known as Spartan 207. Garneau retrieved the satellite in May 1996 during space shuttle mission STS-77, using the...

SpaceX's CRS-31 Dragon spacecraft is scheduled docked with the International Space Station.<b<br/>r/>

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On November 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do.



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Galileo flew by a small moon called...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth.



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Laika was a 3-year-old stray husky-spitz mix from the streets of Moscow,...

On November 1, 1962, the Soviet Union launched the Mars 1 spacecraft on a mission to fly by the Red Planet.



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While it did end up flying by Mars, the mission was not...

On November 2, 2000, the International Space Station welcomed its first long-term residents: NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev.



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The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024. Full