CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and threaten astronauts in flight.

On Monday, the space agency announced the 10 people chosen for its 2025 astronaut candidate class, selected from over 8,000 applicants across the U.S. That’s an acceptance rate of about 0.125%, making the odds far more daunting than Harvard’s 4% admission rate.

It will be several years before any of these new commercial space stations circle the Earth at around 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) and several years before the ISS is deorbited in 2030.

The three satellites aimed for a Sun-orbiting lookout one million miles from Earth, each on its own separate mission.

NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Northeast Ohio has been selected to lead the development of nuclear power systems for lunar missions.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning to hit the “doomsday asteroid” with a nuclear bomb and destroy it in space.The doomsday rock, first discovered in

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) — the country’s largest organization of Earth and space scientists, engineers, and technologists in Greenbelt, Maryland — is making drastic changes following severe budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this fall.