The first launch of a new rocket carried the first lunar lander developed by a startup. Jeff Foust reports on how ULA's Vulcan finally soared while Astrobotic's Peregrine unfortunately stumbled.
An Indian spacecraft, Aditya-L1, reached its orbit around the Earth-Sun L1 point over the weekend to carry out a mission of observing the Sun. Ajey Lele discusses the importance of the mission for both space science and India.
Last week, the commercial arm of India's space agency ISRO announced it would launch a communications satellite not on one of India's own rockets but instead with SpaceX. Aditya Chaturvedi examines the implications of that decision.
The International Space Station has been the setting for movies featuring conflicts and disasters. Jeff Foust reviews a novel that instead offers a day in the life of a fictional crew on the station.