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On June 5, NASA ordered five astronauts into a docked Crew Dragon at 9:03 a.m. EDT while Russian cosmonauts prepared to cut into the ISS's leaking PrK tunnel — a structural problem seven years in the making that no patch has permanently solved.
NASA's X-59 reached Mach 1.1 at 43,400 feet on June 5 — the first supersonic flight of the QueSST program. Here's the wave physics behind the quiet boom, and why this flight matters for the future of overland supersonic travel.
NASA has announced the Artemis III crew for the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 — targeting the south pole and its permanently shadowed water ice deposits.
Best LEGO NASA and space sets for adults in 2026 — Icons Saturn V, Space Shuttle Discovery, ISS and Technic Mars Rover ranked by build quality, accuracy and display value. EU prices.
NASA's super pressure balloon completed a full Earth circumnavigation in 16 days at 33 km altitude. Here's the engineering that keeps a football-stadium balloon aloft for months without venting gas.
Parker Solar Probe's closest-ever images reveal the solar corona in unprecedented detail — what WISPR captured at perihelion and how the spacecraft survives 1,400°C.