A Long March 6A rocket launched 18 internet satellites Wednesday morning (Aug. 7), kicking off construction of a Chinese constellation that could eventually host 14,000 spacecraft.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli snapped a photo of the Oct. 14 solar eclipse from the International Space Station, showing the moon taking a bite out of the sun.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe performed one last trajectory-correcting maneuver on Sunday (Sept. 17) to set up the Sept. 24 arrival of its asteroid sample here on Earth.