Musk confident Starship will start launching 100 tons to orbit next year
WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk says he is confident that Starship can start delivering 100 tons…
Rocket Lab Pitches Mars Satellite As First Step To Keep Astronauts Mission-Ready Before They Set Foot On The Red Planet: ‘Talk First, Land Later’ – Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB)
On Tuesday, Rocket Lab Corp. RKLB positioned its Mars Telecommunications Orbiter as the critical first step in connecting…
Astronaut Megan McArthur retires from NASA after more than two decades
Some explorers have focused on alpine heights. Others on polar extremes. Megan McArthur is one of the elite…
A rocky planet in its star’s ‘habitable zone’ could be the first known to have an atmosphere – here’s what we found
New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have…
China launches mystery Yaogan-45 spysat, expands Geesatcom constellation
HELSINKI — China carried out two launches Monday, sending a new reconnaissance satellite into an unexpected orbit and…
Earth’s ‘New’ Quasi-Moon Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight for 60 Years
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown quasi-moon that’s been shadowing Earth’s orbit for decades, undetected, and will likely…
Meet Earth’s newest quasi-moon, recently discovered 2025 PN7
Newly discovered quasi-moon 2025 PN7 shares a similar orbit with Earth. But from Earth’s perspective, it appears to…
Iran unveils multiple satellite launch plans amid push for space self-reliance
TEHRAN – Iran has unveiled plans for a series of satellite launches in the second half of the…
Is ‘Oumuamua a piece of ancient solar system? Scientists think it came from ‘exo-Pluto’
1I/’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object to visit our solar system in 2017, belongs to a completely new class…
SpaceX’s $17 Billion EchoStar Deal Won’t Work Without Starship
SpaceX’s Starship sits unstacked from its booster on the launchpad at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, in 2023.…
Gigantic ‘letter S’ spotted on the sun just before a ‘dark eruption’ hurls a fiery shadow at Earth
A gigantic, backwards “letter S” recently appeared slap bang in the middle of the sun, moments before our…
One Extremophile Eats Martian Dirt, Survives In Space, And Can Create Oxygen For Colonies
Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of…