NASA re-established communication with Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft that nearly five months ago began sending unreadable data back to the space agency.
The Hubble Space Telescope, proclaimed by NASA to be the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo, was placed in orbit on this day in history, April 25, 1990.
The John and Annie Glenn Museum opens to the public for the 2024 season on Wednesday, May 1. It traces the formative years of astronaut John Glenn and his wife.
Researchers have discovered a thick atmosphere enveloping a planet called 55 Cancri e, which is twice the size of Earth and located in a nearby solar system.
Skylab, America's first space station, was launched into orbit on this day in history in 1973. The space station was damaged during liftoff, but the astronauts repaired it.
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet called WASP-193b that's larger than Jupiter but incredibly light and fluffy due to its composition of mostly light gases.
The Webb Space Telescope has made a new discovery, detecting the earliest known merger of black holes. One of the black holes is 50 million times more massive than the sun.
Ed Dwight, who was America's first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s, finally experienced space travel at the age of 90. Dwight was part of a Blue Origin flight.