This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the images we are seeing, we can now say that the instrument team nailed it," Jamie Bock, SPHEREx’s principal investigator at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in a statement.

NASA has officially added SpaceX’s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, to its lineup of approved launch vehicles—a move that could reshape how the agency tackles deep space missions for years to come.

NASA has successfully tested an electric force field on the Moon that protects spacecraft from destructive lunar dust. The Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) was carried aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1,

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams talk about their flight test on Boeing's Starliner capsule during a media event at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Stranded” NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore launched June 2024 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Crew-9’s return to Earth was 9 months later.

Butch Wilmore spoke highly of his pastors at a press conference Monday, highlighting the significance of worshiping with his congregation during his nine-month period stranded in space.

NASA astronauts stranded in the International Space Station for 278 days say they want to share their input with Boeing. (AP Video by Lekan Oyekanmi

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams indicated they’d be willing to travel on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft again in the future. They both clocked 286 days in space.