SpaceNPR coverage of space exploration, space shuttle missions, news from NASA, private space exploration, satellite technology, and new discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics.
A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-18 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Thursday.
Andy Wong/AP
hide caption
Ed Dwight poses for a portrait in February to promote the National Geographic documentary film The Space Race during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif.
Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
hide caption
In March 2021, mission controllers in Houston used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release an external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries from the International Space Station. Three years later, part of that assembly struck a house in Naples, Fla.
NASA
hide caption
Members of the Voyager team celebrate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in months.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
hide caption
An artist's rendering shows the T Coronae Borealis star system, which contains a white dwarf and a red giant.
Conceptual Image Lab/Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
hide caption
toggle caption
Conceptual Image Lab/Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
Junior Espejo looks through eclipse glasses being handed out by NASA in Houlton, Maine. Used correctly, eclipse glasses prevent eye damage.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
hide caption
People visit a NASA information booth to grab solar eclipse glasses in Russellville, Arkansas. The space agency has debunked a number of myths about the total solar eclipse — including ideas about food going bad, or unborn babies being harmed.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
hide caption
Amos Yew, right, uses a lens on an iPhone to record video in the first stages of the total solar eclipse Monday August 21, 2017 in Madras, Oregon.
AFP Contributor/AFP via Getty Images
hide caption
A person uses a pair of binoculars to watch the moon pass infront of the Earth's star marking a total eclipse in Vigo, northwestern Spain on March 20, 2015.
MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP via Getty Images
hide caption
Storms moving across the United States will make it hard for eclipse chasers to get a clear view of totality — the moment when the moon fully blocks the sun, creating a brilliant crown-like effect.
Mark Humphrey/AP
hide caption
Pinhole shadows show crescent shapes in 2019 as the moon moves in front of the sun — one of several unique phenomena we can see during a solar eclipse.
Louis Kwok /AFP via Getty Images
hide caption
A group of children don eclipse glasses to watch the 2017 solar eclipse at Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming.
VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
hide caption
RV traffic sits at a standstill along a two-lane road near Madras, Ore., a few days before the 2017 total solar eclipse. Experts say traffic could be heavy, but eclipse watchers shouldn't necessarily be deterred.
AFP Contributor/AFP via Getty Images
hide caption
A woman views the solar eclipse in the first phase of a total eclipse in Grand Teton National Park on August 21, 2017 outside Jackson, Wyoming.
George Frey/Getty Images
hide caption
For the first time, we're seeing the Sagittarius A* black hole in polarized light. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration says the image offers a new look at "the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole" at the center of the Milky Way.
EHT Collaboration
hide caption