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Nasa launches mission to study space weather

It can monitor solar storms, which can interfere with technology and power systems on Earth

On Sep 5, several individuals said they were suddenly locked out of Nasa IT systems and barred from in-person meetings. They spoke on condition of anonymity.

Nasa blocks Chinese citizens from working on space programmes

NASA has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programmes, underscoring the intensifying space race between the rival powers.

Lovell travelled to the Moon twice but never walked on the lunar surface.

US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97

[WASHINGTON] US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, the National Aeronauti...

Nasa has offered employees two separate opportunities in 2025 to leave through the government’s Deferred Resignation Programme.

Nasa says thousands of employees set to resign from space agency

The prospect of a mass exodus of employees from the agency has raised alarm bells within the industry and at the agency

Astronaut Edwin Aldrin stands by the American flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.

Another moon landing will take more than rocket science

The first lunar landing took place more than 50 years ago, and there are myriad reasons America has struggled to do it again despite the technological advances

Still, while orbiting Earth in a SpaceX capsule in 2021, he placed the first sports bet in Las Vegas from space.

Nasa administrator was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos

[NEW YORK] President Donald Trump’s nominee for Nasa administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing US$2 million in bad checks to cas...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has lifted off at 7.03 pm ET (2303 GMT) from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying four astronauts who will replace Wilmore and Williams.

Stuck Nasa astronauts one step closer to home after SpaceX crew-swap launch

The Crew-10 crew, which will stay on the station for roughly six months, includes Nasa astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov

In this handout photograph taken and released by Firefly Aerospace on March 2, 2025, the Firefly's Blue Ghost lander manoeuvres its lunar landing as part of the Ghost Mission 1.

US firm Firefly makes its first moon landing with uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft

Firefly becomes the second private firm to score a Moon landing, though it declared itself the first company to make a “fully successful” soft landing.

The spacecraft is expected to send detailed telemetry data about its status on Jan 1, Nasa says.

Nasa spacecraft ‘safe’ after closest-ever approach to Sun

NASA said on Friday (Dec 27) that its Parker Solar Probe was “safe” and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object.

The round-trip mission is part of a step-by-step plan to land humans back on the moon at some point this decade.

Nasa delays first moon landing in more than 50 years to 2027

NASA is delaying its first moon landing in more than 50 years by several months to 2027, as engineers at the agency race to fix critical safety issues with the hardware and adjust plans needed for fut...