Space book authors Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III offer a primer for the new Space Age with a look at how it all started.
On January 24, 2004, NASA's Opportunity Rover landed on Mars to analyze soil and rocks and send pictures of the Red Planet back to Earth.
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather.
NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky.
Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new supercomputer simulations.
With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system," scientists said.
Blue Origin will launch the 29th mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan. 28, on an uncrewed research flight that will simulate lunar gravity conditions.
China successfully launched a classified satellite on Thursday (Jan. 23), but a spent booster from the mission fell shockingly close to a family home.