On this day in space! Aug. 22, 1963: X-15 sets world altitude record
On Aug. 22, 1963, U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane higher than any…
SpaceX sends 27 Starlink satellites to orbit on 100th Falcon rocket launch of the year (photos)
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
2026-08-22T10:05:12.444Z Where will the Aug. 27-28 partial lunar eclipse be visible? The partial phase of a lunar eclipse…
Partial lunar eclipse August 2026 — Where will it be visible from?
Earth’s shadow will swallow 96% of the lunar surface overnight on Aug. 27-28, potentially turning the moon a…
Thousands of tourists now crowd beaches around China’s Wenchang spaceport to watch rockets launch, turning a once-secretive space programme into a booming mix of tourism, art and entertainment
CZ-7 launch from Wenchang (Wiki) Something that used to be treated as a secret is no more a…
Rocket Lab (RKLB) Lands Spot On Nearly $1 Billion Space Force Program
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SpaceX built the most powerful rocket in history without landing legs on its upper stage, designing it instead to be caught after re-entry by a pair of giant arms on the launch tower — and Elon Musk now says the first attempt could come within months.
The most conspicuous missing hardware on SpaceX’s Starship upper stage is not an oversight. There are no landing…
Dry Martian Meteorite Reveals Early Water in Mars’s Crust
Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and…
Neptune sits thirty times farther from the Sun than Earth yet radiates about 2.5 times more energy than it receives — the hidden heat beneath the coldest reaches of the planetary system remains uncertain, even as it helps distinguish Neptune from its strangely quiet twin, Uranus
Neptune receives only about one nine-hundredth of the sunlight available at Earth, yet it sends substantially more energy…
“I Jumped From My Chair” – Astronomers Discover a Hidden Star Orbiting Betelgeuse
This image shows the location of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter).…
What happens when a galaxy’s supermassive black hole turns off? These dying radio galaxies could show us
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of so-called “radio galaxies” with fading “radio lobes.” The discovery reveals…
Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M
Japan is pouring billions of dollars into its burgeoning space industry and easing restrictions on defense exports, efforts…