Rocket Lab’s new Neutron rocket suffers fuel tank rupture during test
It will be quite a bit longer before Neutron makes it to the launchpad. Rocket Lab’s medium-lift launch…
Russia Delays Launch of First Batch of Starlink Rival Satellites
Russia has postponed the launch of the first batch of low-orbit broadband internet satellites under a project meant…
Rocket Report: Chinese rockets fail twice in 12 hours; Rocket Lab reports setback
Welcome to Edition 8.26 of the Rocket Report! The past week has been one of advancements and setbacks…
NASA’s Most Underrated Mission Brought Back Pieces of the Early Solar System
In 2006, NASA’s Stardust mission accomplished something no other spacecraft had done before: it returned solid material from…
Hunting For T-Tauri Stars In A Dark Cloud
The Hubble Mission Team has been feeding us a steady stream of images from the space telescope that…
India Plans 50 Spy Satellites After Pakistan Conflict
Bloomberg News’s Mihir Mishra takes us through India’s plans to launch over 50 surveillance satellites within two years.…
An ocean the size of the Arctic once covered half of Mars, new images hint
New evidence of ancient rivers suggests Mars may have been a “blue planet,” thanks to an ocean spanning…
Astronomers Spot a Mysterious Metallic Cloud Orbiting Something Even More Mysterious
A team of researchers investigating a star’s dramatic dimming uncovered a cloud of dust and gas about 120…
Sinking ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa may be slowly feeding its ocean the ingredients for life
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may have a previously unrecognized way of delivering life-supporting chemicals to its vast subsurface…
A celebrity cluster in the spotlight
This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant Universe. Pictured here…
A black hole ‘feeding frenzy’ could help explain a cosmic mystery uncovered by the James Webb Space Telescope
Scientists may have solved a cosmic mystery that has been troubling them since the James Webb Space Telescope…
Damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft survives reentry, Shenzhou-23 arrives at spaceport
HELSINKI — China’s damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returned safely to Earth after on-orbit internal repairs, concluding the country’s first…