NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday. Nell Greenfieldboyce
National New NASA report lays out roadmap for studying UFOs NASA is releasing a new report from advisers on what it would take for the agency to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (also known as UFOs) scientifically. Nell Greenfieldboyce
World An Arab astronaut made history in space. Now his country has its sights on Mars The United Arab Emirates celebrated after Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi splashed down to Earth following six months in space, a milestone for its growing space program. Aya Batrawy
National Splashdown! NASA's Crew-6 returns after 6 months at the International Space Station The four-member crew — three astronauts and a cosmonaut — launched in March and conducted more than 200 experiments. They also performed spacewalks and did maintenance on the orbiting outpost. Russell Lewis
People are freaking out over a question mark seen in space. Scientists can explain A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a pair of actively forming stars. But many people are more curious about the tiny question mark visible toward the bottom of the frame. Rachel Treisman
National Boeing finds new problems with Starliner space capsule and delays first crewed launch Boeing was set to launch its first astronauts into space next month. But engineers found flammable tape and problems with the capsule's parachutes. The Starliner program has been plagued by delays. Russell Lewis
SpaceX wants this supersized rocket to fly. But will investors send it to the Moon? Getting Starship off the ground is costing the commercial spaceflight company billions of dollars at a time when money is tight. Some analysts think more funding will be needed. Geoff Brumfiel
National These are the 4 astronauts who'll take a trip around the moon next year The group will fly on NASA's Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon for the first time 50 years and establish a long-term presence there. Joe Hernandez
Virginia Norwood, a pioneer in satellite land imaging, dies at age 96 Norwood is best known for developing the Multispectral Scanner System that flew on the first Landsat satellite. That was the first satellite launched to study and monitor Earth's landmasses. Kaitlyn Radde
If daylight saving time seems tricky, try figuring out the time on the moon Scientists are pondering how to tell time on other celestial bodies. It's a lot harder than you might think. Geoff Brumfiel Carmen Molina Acosta