China’s Shijian spacecraft separate after pioneering geosynchronous orbit refueling tests
HELSINKI — China’s experimental Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites have separated in geosynchronous orbit after being docked for months…
Asteroid 433 Eros will pass close to Earth, and you can watch it live
Many events occur in space, allowing scientists and astronomers to observe them in different ways. But tonight, an…
“It’s a potential Earth twin or cousin” — NASA identifies terrestrial exoplanet with the chances of having ‘living hosts’
Earth has been known as the only planet with favorable conditions to host life, but what if it…
China’s Xingyan ‘Star Eye’ network to track satellites and space debris
China is launching a second satellite constellation to monitor objects in orbit to help commercial operators lower collision…
China launches new satellite into space-Xinhua
A modified Long March-7 carrier rocket carrying the Shijian-28 satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
Elon Musk On Starlink For Densely Populated Areas
According to Musk, the firm “didn’t want to put a paywall up when somebody is trying to get…
James Webb Space Telescope spies mysterious high-energy radiation in star nursery
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected unexpected high-energy ultraviolet radiation around five infant stars, or…
Earth’s newfound ‘episodic-squishy lid’ may guide our search for habitable worlds
A newly identified tectonic “regime” may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a…
How will the universe end?
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed…
It’s official – the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified an anomaly beneath the south pole of Mars, and NASA is redefining its scientific priorities
Have you ever thought about what is under the ice on Mars? No? Well, NASA has, ever since…