December 6th, 2025
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What is a science strategy for the human exploration of Mars? A special webinar is being held on December 9, tied to release of a National Academy of Sciences report. This new National Academies report — A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars — outlines how future missions can advance the highest-priority scientific […]
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While NASA is undergoing an upheaval trying to sort out how best to return humans to the Moon via its Artemis program, the space agency has picked two Artemis-4 science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon. The two payloads were selected for further development to fly on the […]
Blue Origin is readying its New Shepard-37 suborbital flight that will rocket six passengers to the edge of space. One traveler onboard that mission is Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, and her voyage carries special significance. She is on a trajectory to become the first wheelchair user in space. In 2018, Benthaus became wheelchair-bound after a mountain […]
Following their launch on November 27 onboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft, cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams, safely docked to the International Space Station. But it turns out that there was more “blast” to their blastoff considering the impact on their departure point at Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome. For more […]
China’s Shenzhou-21 crew is scheduled to carry out their first extravehicular activity in the coming days the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Thursday. Since entering the China Space Station complex on November 1 (Beijing time), the Shenzhou-21 crew has carried out station maintenance, emergency supply inspections and organization, and finished daily life and […]
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, led a hearing on December 3 regarding the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator. “NASA is at the forefront of American leadership in science and technology. It is critical to our national security amid what I have called […]
Chinese private aerospace company LandSpace scored a partial success on the road to landing the Zhuqaue-3’s first stage – SpaceX Falcon 9 style. The reusable stage of the Zhuque-3 rocket exploded en route to a targeted touchdown on December 3. While the booster was successful in hurling its dummy payloads into orbit, an “uncontrolled fire” […]
China has announced that the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft now docked with the country’s space station will make an uncrewed return to Earth. Following a suspected debris strike on Shenzhou-20’s viewport, a trio of astronauts originally scheduled to return to Earth aboard the spacecraft were redirected to Shenzhou-21, which brought them home safely on November 14. Billed […]
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, along with Ranking member U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) recently received a letter of support from former NASA astronauts for Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA Administrator. Isaacman is now poised Wednesday, December 3, 2025 to appear at a hearing […]
Mars Guy takes a look at heavy metal from space, a finding from the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover now exploring Jezero Crater. “Perseverance has gone for more than four years without encountering what three previous rovers have found on Mars: rocks not from Mars,” Mars Guy explains. “Now it too may have found a chunk […]
