NASA accidentally discovers a starless cloud in deep space
Astronomers have spotted something in the sky that looks like a galaxy that never managed to switch its…
Will Proba-3 phone home? European solar-eclipse satellite goes dark
Europe has lost contact with one of its two Proba-3 spacecraft, after an anomaly caused the vehicle to…
Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: ‘The timing was extremely lucky’
Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a…
The universe is humming with ripples in spacetime: Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions
Our catalog of spacetime ripples “heard” by gravitational wave detectors here on Earth has doubled, scientists say, with…
NASA wants to accelerate its Artemis missions to the moon. It will need to drop some big hardware to do it.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently announced a significant restructuring of the Artemis program, and how the agency intends…
Vast wraps $500M round as company vies for NASA space station contract
Vast missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that…
Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target
Between October 2022 and March 2025, we captured 22 such stellar occultations of the Didymos system. Combined with…
NASA’s DART Mission Did More Than Just Nudge an Asteroid, Study Says
In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour…
Track NASA’s Artemis II Mission in Real Time
As NASA invites the public to follow the Artemis II mission as a crew of four astronauts venture…
Japan’s 1st HTV-X cargo craft leaves the International Space Station (photo)
Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay. The…
NASA has shuffled its Artemis rockets. But what of the lunar landers?
There are many details about the EPO/CoLA orbit in the research paper, but critically, its closest point to…
‘City killer’ asteroid YR 2024 will narrowly miss the moon, James Webb Telescope reveals
The moon will officially be spared from an explosive encounter with a “city-killer” asteroid in 2032, new observations…