Chinese Startup Fires ‘Blazing’ Oxygen-Rich Engine for Deep Space Missions
The space industry is gearing up for longer-duration missions to the Moon and beyond, and that requires new…
EU Plots Partial US Satellite Ban Amid Musk Feud
The European Union has announced plans to sabotage the expansion of Elon Musk’s Starlink by restricting US satellite…
‘The sun would all but disappear, and the moon would always look full’: A radio astronomer shares her mind-bending view of the universe
Long before Neil Armstrong piloted the first crewed lunar lander onto the moon and uttered his now-famous words…
Mineral ring on Mars reveals an ocean that lasted a million years
For years, researchers have pointed to ancient shoreline shapes in Mars’ northern lowlands as evidence of a past…
What is Star City, the Cold War cosmonaut training town in Apple TV’s new space series?
On May 29, Apple TV will launch “Star City,” their 10-episode spinoff of “For All Mankind” that depicts…
Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals…
Astronomers weighed a ‘little red dot’ discovered by the James Webb telescope — and found a ‘naked’ black hole inside
Astronomers have found the most extreme example yet of a black hole outweighing its own galaxy, and it…
FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship megarocket after Flight 12 ‘mishap’
Just five days after its debut flight, SpaceX’s Starship V3 megarocket has been grounded. The U.S. Federal Aviation…
NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future
Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, to correct the…
FAA orders SpaceX to investigate mishap with its Starship booster
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered SpaceX to investigate why its Starship booster suffered a mishap and crashed…
China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: ‘We will spare no effort’
China is establishing an integrated program called the Lunar Exploration Program, melding both its robotic Chang’e lunar probe…
Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry
Science Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted NASA’s decision to halt…