NASA awards millions to SpaceX and Amazon’s Project Kuiper for satellite communications

An artist’s conception shows a NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite in orbit. (NASA Illustration) Six satellite ventures — including SpaceX’s Starlink network and Amazon’s Project Kuiper…

Boeing’s Starliner space taxi begins second test flight to the space station (with a dummy on board)

An Atlas 5 rocket sends Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule into space. (NASA Photo / Joel Kowsky) Two and a half years after an initial orbital flight test…

Uncrewed Boeing Starliner capsule links up with space station after ‘excruciating’ wait

Boeing’s Starliner space capsule hangs in front of the International Space Station in preparation for docking. (NASA via Twitter) Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi docked with the…

Two Seattle-area students are finalists in NASA design contest for lunar dirt-digging robots

Project Stardust by Ke “Max” Jiang, left, and Terebro, by Mason Lysaght. (Lunabotics Images) Dig this — two Seattle-area students were semifinalists in a national contest run by…

Moondust buster? NASA funds far-out research projects, including four in Washington state

An artist’s conception shows astronauts at work on the moon. (NASA Illustration) How do you keep moondust from gumming up the works in NASA’s future spacesuits and…

Immerse yourself in life aboard the International Space Station at ‘The Infinite’ VR experience

Visitors to “The Infinite” walk around an exhibit space at the Tacoma Armory that contains a full-scale VR version of the International Space Station. In the foreground,…

Biden unveils first image from Webb Space Telescope, expanding the space frontier

The first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals faraway galaxies. Click on the image for a larger view. (NASA / ESA / CSA /…

Feast your eyes on the first course of a celestial smorgasbord from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided this view of a galactic grouping known as Stephan’s Quintet. Click on the image for a larger version. (NASA / ESA…

NASA announces a challenging schedule for inaugural launch of its SLS moon rocket

A full moon shines above NASA’s Space Launch System rocket during pad testing on June 14. (NASA Photo) If all goes according to plan, NASA could launch…