Space

The Space Operations Command, or SpOC, will be led by Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting.

Update for 6:58 pm ET: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully performed its asteroid Bennu sample-collection attempt, though it will take up to 10 days to determine if samples were actually captured. Read our full story and wrap up here.

For the first time ever, a NASA probe has performed a sample-snagging operation on an asteroid in deep space.

Out in the asteroid belt, 207 million miles (334 million km) from Earth, a little spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Asteroid Bennu today, attempting to collect samples of dust and rocks. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) spent about 10 seconds on […]

This afternoon, a NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles from Earth successfully touched the surface of an asteroid, in an attempt to grab a handful of pebbles and dust from the space rock. Data from the spacecraft confirmed that the vehicle did indeed touch the asteroid today, but NASA […]

Microsoft and SpaceX jointly launched the Azure Space initiative with a vast array of new services.

Earlier this year, Lucasfilm and Disney announced a bold new era of “Star Wars” tales called “The High Republic.” This special publishing initiative encompasses adult, middle-grade and young adult prose fiction, including new comic books, and presents an interconnected web of stories set 200 years before the events of “The […]

SpaceX’s next-gen Starship vehicle just took a big step toward its next milestone leap.