Reusable rockets enable China to rapidly rebuild satellite kill chain
China has achieved two major reusable rocket recovery milestones in little more than a month, potentially bringing the…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth…
Quote of the day by Jennifer Wiseman: “Our bodies actually depend on…” |
Look up at the night sky and the stars can seem impossibly distant, disconnected from the ordinary details…
Launching 10,000 tiny ‘femtosats’ to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas
NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
2026-08-23T11:07:04.809Z How to view a partial lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse captured over the United Kingdom in 2007.…
Telescope image that echoes Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ contains some of the oldest stars in the universe — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud Where it is: 430 light-years away, in the…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual…
Trump to award NASA’s Artemis II astronauts the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
NASA’s Artemis II moon astronauts will join a very exclusive club next week. President Donald Trump will award…
On this day in space! Aug. 21, 1914: Total solar eclipse expedition crashed by WWI
On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia. A young German…
SpaceX fires up Starship ahead of megarocket’s 1st orbital flight (video)
SpaceX is picking up the pace of preparations for the next launch of its giant Starship rocket. On…
Our favorite reader images of the 2026 total eclipse
Credit: David Gluchowski On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse crossed Iceland and Spain — the first time…