Beijing, April 30, 2025 – Three Chinese astronauts, Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong, and Wang Haoze, safely returned to Earth on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, after a six-month mission aboard China's Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-19 crew, who launched on October 29, 2024, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia, marking the successful... Continue Reading →
A Cosmic Pit Stop: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft to Visit Asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025
Get ready for a stellar road trip! On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will zoom past asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, marking the second stop on its ambitious 12-year journey through the solar system. Launched in October 2021, Lucy is on a mission to explore the Trojan asteroids—mysterious space rocks that share Jupiter’s orbit around the... Continue Reading →
Soyuz Rocket Set to Launch Tomorrow for the ISS
Tomorrow, April 8, 2025, a Soyuz rocket will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying a crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Soyuz MS-27 mission. Scheduled for 1:47 a.m. EDT (5:47 a.m. UTC), this launch will see NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey... Continue Reading →