A NASA spacecraft is piercing the sun’s scorching atmosphere right now
A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million…
Scientists Detect Huge Rotating Structure in Space
Astronomers have observed enormous filaments of galaxies tied together with dark matter — the stuff scientists believe makes…
Swarm Satellites Capture Rare Proton Spike in Solar Storm
The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission detected an unexpected spike in high-energy protons over Earth’s poles during a…
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 189 — Privatizing Orbit
Privatizing Orbit – The Pioneering Work of Jeffrey Manber – YouTube Watch On On Episode 189 of This…
The countdown has begun: these two stars will merge and trigger a cosmic cataclysm near us
It’s the stuff of astronomy legends — when two white dwarf stars spiral toward each other, the result…
China launched Kuaizhou-11 Y8 carrier rocket, marking new stage of commercial operations for private cargo spacecraft
Di’er-5 space experimental spacecraft, developed by private firm AZ Space Technologies Photo: Courtesy of AZ Space Technologies China…
This company wants to build a 40-km cannon to launch satellites—and test shots have already begun
The American company Longshot is turning science fiction into engineering reality. Its plan? To build a gigantic cannon…
This ‘Wet Lava Ball’ in Space Somehow Clings to an Atmosphere
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system,…
Mars May Have Once Had a Huge Moon Big Enough to Cause Tides, Study Suggests
In a new study featured by New Scientist, researchers propose that Mars might have once had a much…
This Aging Space Probe Is About to Enter a Territory Only Visited by Our Imagination
Nearly five decades after launch, Voyager 1 is still moving, further and deeper into space than any human-made…
Why Voyager 1 And Voyager 2 Sometimes Get Closer To Earth, On Their Way Out Of The Solar System
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft (1 and 2), launched in 1977, are both on a trajectory that will take them…
SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding With Starlink
A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket risked colliding with a Starlink satellite. On…