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Astronauts' Arrival Puts ISS Back to Full Strength

Replacements for evacuated crew will test new medical gear, moon-landing skills

(Newser) - The International Space Station is fully staffed again with the arrival Saturday of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who bailed early because of health concerns, per the AP . "Soft capture complete," radioed Jessica Meir, the mission commander, per Space.com . The spacecraft were flying south of South...

Astronaut's Ex-Wife Sentenced Over Space Crime Lie

Summer Heather Worden gets 3 months over false allegations about her ex

(Newser) - The ex-wife of a NASA astronaut is going to prison over a sensational lie about her ex. A judge in Texas on Thursday sentenced Summer Heather Worden, 51, to 3 months in federal prison and ordered her to pay $210,000 in restitution, reports People . Worden admitted lying when she...

It's 'One Giant Leap' for the Smartphone

NASA to finally allow smartphones in space

(Newser) - NASA is loosening one of its more old-school rules: it's finally letting astronauts take smartphones into space. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that crews on the upcoming Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station and the Artemis II lunar flyby will be allowed to bring "the latest smartphones,...

Musk: SpaceX Shifts Focus From Mars to Moon

He says lunar city could happen in under a decade, while Mars city would take more than 20 years

(Newser) - Elon Musk just quietly rewrote his space dream—this time with a lunar address instead of a Martian ZIP code. As the Super Bowl kicked off Sunday, the SpaceX CEO posted on X that his company has "already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon,"...

Get Ready for Some Major Space Weather

Strong X-class flares released this week may trigger bright auroras, minor disruptions

(Newser) - If you like sky shows, the sun is setting one up for this week, while giving satellite operators a mild headache. NASA says four powerful solar flares blasted off the sun in the space of around 20 hours on Sunday and Monday, all in the strongest "X-class" category. Three...

Fuel Leaks Delay Moon Mission by a Month
NASA's
Moon Mission
Again Stalls
Feb 3, 2026 8:33 AM CST

NASA's Moon Mission Again Stalls

Artemis II now set for a possible March launch date due to fuel leaks

(Newser) - NASA has again delayed the planned start of its fly-around-the-moon mission after its mega-rocket sprang a leak. The agency says the launch of Artemis II, which had been shooting for as early as Sunday in Florida, will now slip to March after engineers spotted hydrogen leaking from the Space Launch...

Blue Origin Has Paused Space Tourism Flights

Company shifts resources to accelerate lunar lander work for NASA

(Newser) - Blue Origin's tourist rocket is heading for a long timeout while Jeff Bezos' space company shoots for the moon. The company said Friday it will stop flying its New Shepard suborbital rocket for "at least two years" to shift engineers and resources to NASA's Artemis program, which...

Cold Weather in Florida Delays Artemis Moonshot

First Artemis moonshot won't be until Super Bowl Sunday at the earliest

(Newser) - NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site. The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted for no earlier than Feb. 8, two days later than planned. NASA was all set to conduct a fueling test of the...

NASA Research Plane Does a Belly Flop at Houston Airport

'Mechanical issue' forces gear-up emergency landing; runway closed during response

(Newser) - A specialized NASA research jet made an emergency belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston on Tuesday after an apparent malfunction, with all crew members reportedly safe. The aircraft, a WB-57 high-altitude research plane run by NASA's Johnson Space Center, came down without its landing gear deployed, NASA spokesperson...

NASA Puts Moon Mission Crew in Quarantine

Crew begins 2-week health stabilization before historic Artemis 2 mission

(Newser) - Astronauts aiming for the moon are now living under rules that look a lot like 2020. Futurism reports that the four-person Artemis 2 crew has entered NASA's standard pre-launch isolation program, a roughly two-week "health stabilization" effort designed to keep them from catching anything that could derail the...

Hubble Captures Images of Huge Stars Still Forming

Look at environments could help understanding of how they're created

(Newser) - NASA is showing off a new kind of baby picture: portraits of massive stars still in the womb. Using the Hubble Space Telescope's infrared vision, astronomers captured rare views of protostars—young, still-forming stars wrapped in dense clouds of gas and dust. Visible light can't escape those cocoons,...

Astronaut Who Was Stuck on ISS Retires

NASA chief praises Suni Williams as 'a trailblazer in human spaceflight'

(Newser) - NASA's Suni Williams—one of two astronauts stuck for months on the International Space Station—has retired. The space agency announced the news Tuesday, saying her retirement took effect at the end of December. Williams' crewmate on Boeing's ill-fated capsule test flight, Butch Wilmore, left NASA last summer...

NASA Brings Its Ailing Astronaut Home

Crew of 4 returns to Earth early in agency's first medical evacuation

(Newser) - An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited...

ISS Crew Begins Unprecedented Early Return

'It's the right call, even if it's a bit bittersweet,' NASA astronaut says

(Newser) - NASA is flying a crew home from the International Space Station ahead of schedule for the first time over a medical issue, and it's leaving the orbiting lab with its leanest staff in years. Four astronauts from the Crew-11 mission—Americans Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japan's Kimiya...

Moon Mission Could Launch as Soon as Feb. 6

Artemis II Mission will test redesigned Orion re-entry after 2022 heat-shield issues

(Newser) - NASA is getting ready to send astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than half a century—and then pull off the riskiest part: bringing them home. The Artemis II mission, targeted for launch as soon as February, will put four astronauts—NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor...

NASA Might Have to Bring ISS Crew Back Early
Medical Issue Forces
Early Return of ISS Crew
UPDATED
Jan 9, 2026 12:00 AM CST

Medical Issue Forces Early Return of ISS Crew

Thursday spacewalk was abruptly canceled before NASA pulled plug on mission

(Newser) - NASA decided to cut a mission aboard the International Space Station short due to a medical issue one of the astronauts experienced. The unidentified crew member is now stable, but few details about their identity or the exact nature of the problem have been given. NASA said the situation was...

NASA Confirms First Known 'Failed Galaxy'

Starless dark-matter cloud offers a rare glimpse into the early universe

(Newser) - Astronomers say they've finally spotted something they've only talked about in theory: a "failed galaxy" made mostly of dark matter and gas, with not a single star in sight. NASA has nicknamed the object "Cloud-9," describing it as a starless, hydrogen-rich cloud dominated by dark...

Goddard's Space Library to Shut, Losing Vast Material

Closure threatens unique undigitized space research records collaboration spaces

(Newser) - NASA's biggest research library is about to go dark—and much of what's inside may never be seen again. The Trump administration is shutting the main library at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday as part of a campus-wide consolidation that will also close...

How Is Musk Back in Trump's Good Graces? Thank Vance

Washington Post details the VP's efforts to repair the rift

(Newser) - Earlier this month, Politico reported that Elon Musk told current and former members of DOGE that the US was on the brink of a "great 12-year span" encompassing President Trump's second term followed by two terms of JD Vance. That is quite a turnaround from Musk's falling...

Trump Nominates Isaacman for NASA Again
Senate Confirms Isaacman
as NASA Administrator
UPDATED
Dec 17, 2025 4:06 PM CST

Senate Confirms Isaacman as NASA Administrator

After a monthslong saga, the vote was 67-30

(Newser) - The Senate confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator on Wednesday, placing him atop the agency after a monthslong saga in which President Trump revoked his nomination as part of a feud with Elon Musk. Isaacman, who has promised to bring a business-minded approach to the space agency,...

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