Topic: spaceflight

Artist’s concept of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Saturn’s moon Titan. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA officially headed to Saturn moon

Rae Hodge
This illustration shows a concept for one of two NASA helicopters that would provide a secondary capability to pick up additional samples stashed on the surface on Mars by the Perseverance rover. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's next generation space helicopters

Rae Hodge
Astronaut Gui Haichao is out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site on October 31, 2023 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Wang Xiaobo/VCG via Getty Images)

Chinese astronauts return after 6 months

Rae Hodge
Engineer working on checking equipment in solar power plant with galaxies in the background (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Coming soon: Solar panel space farms

Rae Hodge
In this handout image provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011 in Space. (Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images)

Russian cosmonauts dodge coolant leak

Rae Hodge
In this handout provided by NASA, Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

New record for longest US spaceflight

Matthew Rozsa
Pete Davidson attends the Triller Fight Club: Jake Paul v Ben Askren at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on April 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for Triller)

Pete Davidson is going to space!

Joy Saha
Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. saluting the US flag on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 lunar mission; "Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11" by James Donovan (Getty/NASA/Little Brown)

The inside story of the Apollo 1 tragedy

James Donovan