The brightest star of the night sky, Sirio, will surely draw your attention in the night sky at this time of the year. Once the sky darkens after 7:30 pm local time, Sirius will appear in the southeastern sky, in the lower left...
Satellites are assessing the damage following a devastating earthquake affecting Turkey and numerous other countries on Monday (Feb. 6). The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck overnight in Turkey and Syria, flattening buildings...
The Spy balloon was spotted near Billings, Montana, on Wednesday (Feb. 1) as it appeared to be hovering stationary(opens in new tab), high in the sky. On Thursday (Feb. 2), U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace...
The oscillating frequencies of two short gamma-ray bursts are the best evidence yet for the formation of ‘impossible’ hypermassive neutron star that can briefly defy gravity before collapsing to form a black...
The new class of space tourist ship for Virgin Galactic Spaceship, called Delta, is coming together with a new deal to fly Axiom Space astronauts along with contracts to secure key suppliers, the company said in press...
An exotic form of precipitation called ‘diamond rain’ — long thought to occur deep within ice giant Diamond planet — could be more common than previously thought. Diamond planet are one of the...
Boeing Starliner new astronaut taxi has landed safely back on Earth, wrapping up its long-anticipated and crucial demonstration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Boeing Starliner capsule landed at...
The universe just got a bit richer with the discovery of an apparent diamond planet orbiting a nearby star. A Diamond planet thought to be made largely of diamond may be less than glittering inside, new...
The Department of Defense is sticking with SpaceX and ULA launch as its two primary launch services for U.S. national security missions for the foreseeable future. The U.S. Air Force said on Friday it awarded...
A European satellite that has been scrambling to escape premature death in Earth’s atmosphere due to bad space weather has narrowly avoided a collision with a random piece of space debris. Swarm, the satellite...
Changes in Earth’s atmosphere resulting from climate change are working against efforts to clean dangerous space debris out of orbit around Earth.On the surface, that might be great news for satellite makers, who want...
Sirius star, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky. The name means “glowing” in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets, the full moon and...
Despite the daily “who cares about Avatar” posts on social media that have been a thing for roughly a decade now, James Cameron’s big original sci-fi universe is alive and kicking, with Avatar 2 and 3 already shot and deep...
Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic announced Thursday (July 14) that it will build its next-generation Delta class spaceship at a manufacturing facility in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix. The Mesa plant could...
Imagine traveling high enough to see the curvature of the Earth against the blackness of space, not in a brief, high-adrenaline rocket ride but a luxurious and leisurely Spaceship like balloon flight up into...
Starlink is a huge satellite system that aims at providing even the most remote areas of the Earth with high-speed Internet service. It has been developed and constructed by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX since 2015. FARGO, N.D...
NASA has released a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The sound waves were actually previously identified by astronomers but have been made...
“The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family,” the new king, her eldest son Charles, said. Queen Elizabeth II, whose...
Apple CEO Tim Cook just announced the iPhone 14 pro, the high-end models for this year. xiPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. For the first time ever, Apple’s ‘Pro’ series iPhones...
President Biden announced student loan debt relief on Wednesday for tens of millions of Americans, saying he would cancel $10,000 in debt for those earning less than $125,000 per year and $20,000 for those who had received Pell...
A sunspot nearly triple the size of Earth is within firing range of our planet, and may send out medium-class flares in the near future. A sunspot pointing toward Earth has the potential to cause solar flare, but experts told...
Blue Marble is a term used to describe the image of our planet floating in the vastness of space. NASA operates 18 of the most advanced Earth-observing satellites ever built, helping scientists make some of the most...
Putin was quoted by the Russian state media news source TASS on Tuesday (April 12), which was “Cosmonautics Day” in Russia. The annual celebration honors the launch of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who...
The sun explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987, according to SpaceWeather.com. The sunspot explosion released loads of energy in the form of radiation, which also led to a coronal mass...
Multiple research teams are developing missions designed to address the planet’s potential as an abode for alien life — life that could be swirling high above the scorched surface within the relatively...
When Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted at SpaceX founder Elon Musk to ask for Starlink internet services amidst the Russian invasion, the tech billionaire delivered — with the help of the United...
Around the world, astrophysicists are poring over the blips of gravitational waves that ripple through Earth when distant black holes or neutron stars collide. One of those astrophysicists is Christine Ye, a 17-year-old student...
The billionaire entrepreneur, who runs both SpaceX and Tesla, has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, regulatory documents released on Monday (April 4) reveal. His stake in the company is worth nearly $2.9...
By touching down in the landing zone – roughly 400km (250 miles) to the north-east of Russian space launch facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan – Vande Hei surpasses Nasa’s previous record for the longest...
Scientists have confirmed the speed of sound on Mars, using equipment on the Perseverance rover to study the red planet’s atmosphere, which is very different to Earth’s. An international team of...
The Tianwen 1 orbiter recently captured photos of the Zhurong rover, its partner on the Tianwen 1 Mars mission, and NASA’s Perseverance rover as the two wheeled robots explored their...
The sea ice was fundamental to ecosystems and may play a role in protecting the Antarctic ice sheet from the effects of ocean heat, he said. When the ice sheet melts it adds to global sea levels. On Feb. 25, sea-ice extent —...
On Feb. 28, on the fourth day of Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invader, Ukraine submitted its application for European Union (EU) membership with a special expedited procedure. The application was accepted and...
The U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delayed completion of an environmental review of SpaceX Starship program by at least another month, to April 29 at the earliest. The FAA has been working on a programmatic...
The rockets launch window for NASA’s Ion-Neutral Coupling during Active Aurora mission opened Wednesday (March 23) and runs through April 1; another window is open from April 3–7. The Wednesday launch was scrubbed due to...
Aquarian Space announced the funding from Draper Associates Thursday (March 17) as a step along its eventual goal to bringing high-speed internet between the Earth, the moon and Mars in future years, fast enough to stream 4K...
The “Saturday Night Live” star and five other people are scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle on March 23, company representatives announced today (March...
Last week, a flurry of news reports worryingly claimed that Russia was threatening to strand an American astronaut on the International Space Station in direct response to sanctions placed on the country as it continues to invade...
NASA and crowdsourcing platform HeroX have launched a $30,000 challenge to find better ways to analyze data relating to Mars’ potential to host life. The deadline to make your submission is April 18, and you can...
New satellite views from space show the Russian military moving towards Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday (March 11), including images of a battalion firing upon the besieged capital. MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — The Russian...
NASA will get just over $24 billion this year, if Congress is able to pass a newly devised omnibus spending bill. The funding package, which allocates a total of $1.5 trillion throughout the government, would give NASA about...
Take three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast. That’s the conclusion of new research digging into a particularly strange gravitational...
U.K. Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss announced the new space export sanctions on Russia last Wednesday (March 9) alongside deeper sanctions related to aviation, including new powers to detain Russian aircraft. The space-related...
The former NASA astronaut has been a vocal opponent of the Russian invasion, expressing his displeasure with Russian aggression frequently via Twitter, and in Russian to boot. All astronauts who visit the International...
After 10 years fighting back photons in its peripheral vision, a NASA space telescope now has a way to use “nuisance light” to potentially increase its science productivity. NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear...
The contract covers missions Crew-7, Crew-8 and Crew-9, but NASA says it might order more crew launches in the future. SpaceX began flying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in 2020, marking...
A new satellite view of the 40-mile-long (64 kilometers) Russian invasion convoy headed for the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shows just how huge the assemblage of tanks and artillery haulers really is. The following satellite...
Russia’s space agency has refused to launch OneWeb internet satellites unless the company provides assurances they won’t be used for military purposes and the UK sells its stake in OneWeb. Roscosmos was...
On Monday (Feb. 28), Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and the country’s minister of digital transformation, shared a photo on Twitter of a batch of additional terminals that can be used to...
SpaceX launch 50 Starlink internet satellites and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea (Feb. 25). A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 50 Starlink internet spacecraft lifted off from...
The head of Russia’s space agency warned Thursday (Feb. 24) that new sanctions imposed on his country could have dire consequences for the International Space Station program. “Do you want to destroy our...
One of the James Webb Telescope first studies will seek to tell us more about 19 nearby galaxies and how they fit into our neighborhood’s history. The infrared images taken from deep space will allow Webb telescope...
Record-breaking gusts of up to 122 mph (196 km/h) were recorded in England Friday (Feb. 18) as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and parts of the Netherlands and France face their worst storm in over three decades. Trees...
The majestic Mount Etna is erupting so strongly in the Mediterranean that it’s catching the attention of the International Space Station crew. Members of Expedition 66, which is now in orbit, provided some views of...
The James Webb Space Telescope key pointing instrument fixed on to a star for the first time, two space agencies reported. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS), a contribution from Honeywell on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency...
“Optical lattice atomic clock are already the best clocks in the world, and here we get this level of performance that no one has seen before,” Shimon Kolkowitz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor and...
The China National Space Administration is preparing to launch two new space station modules, named Wentian and Mengtian, on separate Long March 5B rockets in the coming months. Preparations for both missions...
InSight may not be able to collect science data beyond this summer, thanks to long-term dust buildup on its solar panels. InSight went into a protective safe mode on Jan. 7, temporarily shutting down its instruments after a...
While normal stars have surfaces composed of hydrogen and helium, the stars discovered by Werner and his colleagues have their surfaces covered with carbon and oxygen, the ashes of helium burning — an exotic composition for...
The new video from the Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA) shows the space station’s 33.5-foot-long (10.2 meters) robotic arm rising up from behind the Tianhe module and reaching out to find a docking port in the...
Are there liquid-water lakes beneath Mars’ south polar ice cap? The answer seemed to be a big yes back in 2018 when scientists announced the first evidence for the lakes. But now, that initial, seemingly clear, result...
The James Webb Telescope launched on Dec. 25 and has spent its time in space so far executing a complicated sequence of deployments to unfold the telescope to its final configuration. On Thursday (Jan. 6), the...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 49 Starlink satellites on Thursday (Feb. 3) from NASA’s historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A day later, a geomagnetic storm above Earth increased...
James Webb Telescope has been in the process of cooling down and aligning its mirror segments since February 2, after reaching its orbital point beyond the moon on January 24. The James Webb Telescope launched to space on...
The team behind NASA’s James Webb Telescope released some of the first images from the much-anticipated observatory on Friday (Feb. 11). The main photo, which doesn’t even hint at the power James Webb...
The James Webb Telescope achieved another major milestone, successfully extending its secondary mirror as it continues to sail seamlessly through its never-before-conducted deployment sequence on the way to its...
A total of 34 satellites for OneWeb launched on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. They separated from the launcher during nine successful sequences, according to Arianespace, in a mission that lasted three...
James webb telescope soared into space successfully on Dec. 25 and successfully completed its major deployments about two weeks later while speeding toward its ultimate destination: the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2)...
Astra postponed its first mission from Florida on Monday after an abort stopped the company’s small rocket from lifting off. Astra Space came close but scrubbed another attempt to make its first launch from the Space...
SpaceX launches classified spy satellite for US military | Spacex launches satellite for us military
SpaceX sent a U.S. spy satellite to orbit today (Feb. 2) in the second of three planned launches over a four-day stretch. SpaceX hauled a classified payload into orbit for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency Wednesday...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will move its next Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) weather satellite into position over the Western United States soon after launch to speed up data...
PLANETARY TRANSITS AND OSCILLATIONS OF STARS (PLATO) Expected launch date: 2026 PLATO will seek out and investigate Earth-size exoplanets, especially planets that orbit in the habitable zone around sun-like stars. (The...
Near-Earth objects are Asteroid and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) of the Sun, which means they can circulate through the Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Most near-Earth...
SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket. The contract, awarded Friday, falls under the Air Force Research Laboratory’s...
On March 4, 2022, the spent upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the moon. The debris has been in space since February of 2015, when it launched the Deep Space Climate Observatory into space. The...
It makes sense to think that moons of planets are widespread throughout our galaxy and beyond. But these exomoon – moons beyond our solar system – are difficult to detect. They’re even harder than distant planets...
In October 2021, with all the rocket parts in place, NASA deputy associate administrator for exploration systems Tom Whitmeyer said the agency is targeting a window in February for the Artemis-1 launch, opening on Feb. 12 and...
On Thursday, a UK-based company that claims to be producing Tom Cruise’s upcoming film in space said it plans to attach the first-ever space movie studio and sports arena to the International Space Station as early as...
The undersea volcano had been burbling since late December 2021, shaking the seas near Tonga with a series of outbursts. Things kicked into higher gear this month, with powerful blasts on Jan. 13 and Jan. 14 and then an...
The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles (10 km). The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938...
Earth travels around the sun in an orbit that is slightly oval-shaped, known as an ellipse. Therefore, the planet’s distance from the sun changes throughout the year. The first person to find the distance...
Astronomers have previously seen giant black hole shred apart stars. However, researchers have also detected supermassive black hole generating powerful outflows that can feed the dense clouds from which stars are...
Two recent studies shed new light on the Moon’s origin story, suggesting that there’s more to the formation of Earth’s natural satellite. One study claims a messier origin to the Moon with multiple collisions that birthed...
Radian Aerospace raises $27.5 million for orbital space plane | Radian Aerospace orbital space plane
Radian Aerospace, based in the Seattle suburb of Renton, Washington, announced Jan. 19 it had closed a $27.5 million seed round led by venture capital fund Fine Structure Ventures. Other investors include from EXOR, The Venture...
China has fired up a machine designed to make unlimited energy fusion reactor known as the “artificial sun” – and wants to make it even hotter than the real sun. The Chinese experimental nuclear fusion reactor smashed...
A spacecraft launched by NASA has done what was once thought impossible. On April 28, the Parker Solar Probe successfully entered the corona of the Sun — an extreme environment that’s roughly 2 million...
Chinese scientists have built an “artificial moon” research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism. Scientists plan to use the artificial moon facility to test...
Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket lofted seven small satellites for three different customers today (Jan. 13), marking the third straight successful mission for the California-based company. Virgin Orbit is one of many...
On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had destroyed one of its old satellites in a test of an...
NASA says that so far, more than 4,500 exoplanets have been discovered and are considered confirmed. But all of these have been located within the Milky Way galaxy. Thousands of other “candidate” exoplanet have...
Glowing with the radiance of 10 million times that of our own Sun, Pistol Star is one of the intrinsically brightest stars in our Galaxy. It appears as the bright white dot in the centre of this image. Related articles:...
SpaceX will launch a stack of 53 Starlink satellites on one of its previously flown rockets — a Falcon 9 dubbed B1062. The frequent flier is scheduled to blast off at 7:40 a.m. EST (1240 GMT) from Space...
On Jupiter, a storm’s been brewing for more than 300 years. Known as the Great Red Spot, this swirling high-pressure region is clearly visible from space, spanning a region in Jupiter’s atmosphere more than 10,000...
If the universe is infinite in size, you don’t really need to worry about this conundrum. The universe, being all there is infinitely big and has no edge, so there’s no outside to even talk about. Related articles:...
A growing number of scientists and space-technology enthusiasts are looking into ways to construct a huge moon elevator, either on Earth or the moon that could transport cargo to and from space. Related articles: Mining...
The researchers found that the more than 9,300 tons (8,440 metric tons) of space objects orbiting Earth, including inoperative satellites and chunks of spent rocket stages, increase the overall brightness of the night sky by...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in a statement it had approved a license for the aerospace giant “to construct, deploy, and operate a satellite constellation” that will “provide broadband and...
Since the 1994 discovery of water ice on the moon by the Clementine spacecraft, excitement has reigned at the prospect of a return to the moon. This followed two decades of the doldrums after the end of Apollo, a malaise...
Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight venture Blue Origin has lost out on its lawsuit against NASA over a contract to build the space agency’s next human lunar lander. The judgment puts an end to Blue Origin’s month’s long...
Over the past several years, scientists have published research suggesting that people’s brains change after spending longer than a few months in space. These studies started because astronauts experienced issues like vision...
Astra Space saw the sixth rocket it has attempted to launch since 2018 fail to reach orbit. Saturday’s failure will test the patience of the company’s engineers, who were convinced that this time, the vehicle would perform as...
An unmanned Russian cargo ship is connected to the International Space Station on Friday evening (October 29) to deliver nearly 3 tons of supplies and some items before Halloween. Related articles: First Animal in Space;...
The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 150 globular clusters. The exact number is uncertain because of obscuration by dust in the Milky Way band, which probably prevents some globular clusters from being seen. Messier...
Artemis 3 is designed to land humans on the Moon quickly, by 2024, and focus on Mars as a long-term human spaceflight goal after that. Artemis 3 preliminary short-term plan involves using both commercial rockets and NASA’s...
Ariane 5 rocket is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) long-running Arianespace programme. According to Arianespace, Ariane 5 rocket is the first new-generation launcher to reach the commercial market, arriving at least...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin on Monday announced it wants to launch a space station. Blue Origin describes the Orbital Reef space station, which would be habitable for up to 10 people, as a “mixed use business park” in space...
China has test-fired their new massive Solid fuel rocket engine that creates more propulsion options for the country’s growing space ventures. It was ignited on October 19 at a site near Xi’an City northern China for...
1) Hubble Hubble’s space mission launch in 1990 was motivated by the idea that the best view of space is from space itself. Astronomers attempting to get a good view of very distant objects in the universe. Related...
Company founder and CEO Elon Musk said that he’s “highly confident” SpaceX mission to mars will launch people toward the Red Planet in 2026, adding that the milestone could come as early as 2026 “if we...
SN15 marked the first SpaceX Starship prototype that was not destroyed after a high-altitude test flight. While a small fire broke out at the base of the rocket after the landing, the blaze appeared contained a few minutes...
Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company, SpaceX stocks has reportedly raised another $850 million, sending its valuation soaring to about $74 billion. SpaceX stocks raised at a price of $419.99 per share, CNBC...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission will include three Earth gravity assists and visits to eight asteroids. Lucy spacecraft mission will...
The potato shaped moons, Deimos and Phobos, have very porous material. There are ice contents inside Phobos’cavities, where the tidal forces cause a lot of energy dissipation. Using simulations, the team traveled back in time...
The Pleiades star cluster, or Seven Sisters, is the most well-known star cluster in the night sky. It’s what’s known as an ‘open cluster’, which is a group of stars that form from the same huge cloud of dust and gas. As...
The Soyuz MS-19 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) lifted off at 08:55 UTC (04:55 EDT) on Tuesday, October 5 from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, before docking after a two-orbit rendezvous –...
In 1927, an astronomer named Georges Lemaître had a Big Bang idea. He said that a very long time ago, the universe started as just a single point. He said the universe stretched and expanded to...
NASA engineer David Burns produced an engine of speed of light concept that, he says. It could theoretically accelerate to 99 percent of the speed of light – all without using propellant. Dr Burns, from Nasa’s...
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover took a spacewalk Saturday outside the International Space Station to upgrade the lab’s communications and cooling systems. The walk, which took place about 250 miles above...
The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas. It looks like a flat stripe because we are viewing it from...
