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...
