02 April 2026
NASA astronauts launch on lunar flyby mission
... (Space Launch System) rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 pm. EDT on 1 April, sending four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a planned test flight around the Moon...
09 January 2016
Second Annual Buchalter Cosmology Prize awarded
...year's award ceremony took place on January 6th at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Kissimmee, Florida. This year's winning paper, “Identification of a gravitational arrow of time” is from Perimeter postdoctoral fellow Flavio...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission lifted off on an Atlas V 411 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 05:03 CET on 10 February on its mission to study the Sun from new perspectives. Signals from the spacecraft were ...
29 July 2020
Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
... this mission because it is so important." The launch will take place at 7:50 am EDT (11:50 GMT) on Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Live coverage will take place on YouTube and across social...
22 June 2021
Space Perspective confirms successful test flight
... Space Perspective as they prepare to take private citizens to space,” said Frank DiBello, president and CEO of Space Florida. This test flight flew a number of payloads, including: Higher Orbits, an educational nonprofit that uses space to promote...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... in sea levels could prove a significant threat to some of the world’s iconic coastal space launch sites, including Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). NASA is building a massive artificial dune along a stretch of the coast in a bid to protect...
