Space

Here’s the latest for Wednesday, March 19th: Trump and Zelenskyy speak after Putin call; Social Security Administration to require in-person visits; Agent Orange cleanup with Vietnam jeopardized; European telescope unveils new images of distant galaxies.

As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth after being stuck in space for 9 months, residents of William’s ancestral village in Gujarat, India, celebrated her safe arrival. (AP video shot by Ajit Solanki)

NASA’s Joel Montalbano said the space agency was already looking at various options when President Trump made his call to hurry astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico early Tuesday evening.

Here’s the latest for Tuesday, March 18th: Trump and Putin agree on ceasefire on energy and infrastructure in Ukraine; Israel launches airstrikes in Gaza; NASA’s stuck astronauts return to Earth; Last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain dies.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, just hours after departing the International Space Station.

NASA’s two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bid farewell to the International Space Station — their home since last spring — departing aboard a SpaceX capsule alongside two other astronauts.

NASA’s stuck astronauts are heading home after nine months on the International Space Station. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams boarded a SpaceX capsule late Monday night, along with NASA Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.

A spacecraft carrying the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts docked at the International Space Station on Sunday, paving the way for the pair’s return after nine long months.

The replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on Friday night, paving the way for the pair’s return after nine long months.

Moongazers gathered in Chile, Argentina and Venezuela to observe a total lunar eclipse. The events happen when the moon, Earth and sun align just so. The Earth casts a shadow that can partially or totally blot out the moon. (AP Video by Victor R. Caivano, Mauricio Cuevas, and Juan Arraez)

A launch pad problem prompted SpaceX to delay a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday to replace NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The new crew needs to get to the International Space Station before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can head home after nine months in orbit.

British astronaut Time Peake says he is looking forward to an all-UK space mission in the future. The proposed flight would be operated by private company Axiom, which now employs the former ESA astronaut. All eyes are on the ISS at the moment as stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare to finally return to Earth. (AP Video: Mustakim Hasnath)

Here’s the latest for Wednesday, March 12th: U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports go into effect; House passes measure to fund government agencies; Ukraine says it’s open to 30 day ceasefire; Rocket carries new NASA telescope into space.

NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday night from California by SpaceX, the Spherex observatory will survey the sky every six months from an orbit over Earth’s poles.

President Donald Trump selected a shiny red Tesla on the White House driveway as he showed support for Elon Musk’s electric automaker.

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red across the Western Hemisphere. On Thursday night into Friday morning, the Earth will cast a shadow that totally blocks the moon.

Several people in the Bahamas witnessed the explosive wreckage of the failed Starship rocket as it flew across the sky.

Possible sighting of debris from the missing SpaceX wreckage is caught on camera.

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)

Video of a private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touching down on the moon Sunday has been released.

NASA’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.

A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday, aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that never sees the sun.

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.

Russian spacecraft carrying military ‘devices’ blasts off from northern cosmodrome

Here’s the latest for Tuesday, Feb. 4th: China retaliates against U.S. tariffs; El Salvador says it welcomes U.S. prisoners; Mass shooting in Sweden; Blue Origin rocket test flight

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. (AP video produced by Javier Arciga)

Japan on Sunday launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket, as the country seeks to have a more precise location positioning system of its own.