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Workers move NASA’s Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) into the Air Force Flight Test Museum in California.

On This Day in Space: May 6, 1968: Neil Armstrong Narrowly Escapes Fiery Crash

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

On May 6, 1968, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong almost met his fate while simulating a lunar landing.

Space Shuttle
A blue orb is in the foreground and a red one in the background. Both are in space.

Did the James Webb Space Telescope really find life beyond Earth? Scientists aren't so sure

By Robert Lea published

Reports of life signs detected in the atmosphere of the potential ocean world K2-18 b may have been premature.

James Webb Space Telescope
a charred cone-shaped spacecraft floats in the ocean with five large red spherical balloons on top

NASA inspector general finds Orion heat shield issues 'pose significant risks' to Artemis 2 crew safety

By Brett Tingley published

NASA's inspector general writes that the Artemis 1 test flight of the Orion spacecraft revealed anomalies that "pose significant risks to the safety of the crew."

Artemis
Dragon approaches the ISS during a redocking mission on May 2

SpaceX's Crew-8 astronauts move Dragon at the ISS to make way for Boeing's Starliner

By Mike Wall last updated

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission moved their Dragon capsule to a different port at the ISS on Thursday morning (May 2).

International Space Station
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in its deployed form as seen in an artist's illustration.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission — Live updates

By Robert Lea published

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope
A view of the Milky Way from Einstein's Probe's perspective. There are various squares overlain on the image and bright purple spots of X-ray activity.

Einstein Probe X-ray telescope releases 1st images taken with 'lobster vision'

By Keith Cooper published

Einstein Probe, which is the new Chinese–European X-ray mission, has revealed its first widescreen views of the universe.

Missions
A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays.

'We are ready:' New NASA documentary looks ahead to Artemis 2 moon mission (video)

By Jeff Spry published

A new NASA video reflects on the successful Artemis 1 moon mission and looks ahead to next year's crewed effort, Artemis 2.

Artemis
in the mid-right of the image, two three-paneled solar arrays span the image height, meeting in the center at a cubic-like spacecraft with two circular attachments. In the background on the right, starry space. On the left, the half-shadowed rusted-red planet Mars.

This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars

By Stefanie Waldek published

During a gravity assist with Mars, Hera will study the moon Deimos.

Missions
long-distance view of a conical white capsule against the blackness of space

SpaceX's 30th Dragon cargo mission departs the ISS, splashes down on Earth

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX's 30th robotic Dragon cargo ship returned home to Earth with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean around 2:30 a.m. ET (0630 GMT) on April 30.

International Space Station
(Left) an image of part of the Horsehead nebula as seen by the JWST's NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) instrument.(Right) another region visualised by The JWST instrument MIRI (Mid-InfraRed Instrument).(Inset) the entire Horsehead Nebula as seen by Hubble

Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video)

By Robert Lea published

The James Webb Telescope has zoomed in on the Horsehead Nebula, capturing slices of this stunning star-forming region close to Earth in an entirely new light.

James Webb Space Telescope
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