Can China’s electric rocket launcher make Elon Musk’s chemical rockets obsolete?
The first version of Falcon 9, launched in 2010, reportedly brought the cost of reaching orbit down by…
Astronauts returning from space today will need to relearn how to walk after spending 241 days aboard ISS
Astronauts coming back to Earth from the International Space Station require rehabilitative therapy to get them back on…
US-Russian space crew lands safely after eight-month stint on the ISS
AP — A US-Russian space crew landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday after an eight-month stint…
Antarctica’s ‘hummingbird’ revealed in stunning new NASA radar
article A new radar image captured by the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite reveals an Antarctic landscape…
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from…
2 meteor showers are about to peak on the same night — what to know about the Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids
Two meteor showers will peak together overnight on Thursday, July 30, into Friday, July 31 — but skywatchers…
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return from Space Station
Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on…
Photographer Captures Rare Shot of Venus and the ISS Together in One Frame
For a split-second, the ISS whizzes past Venus at an incredible speed. | Photo by AJ Smadi Photographer…
Humanity’s first look at the surface of Mars shared on 50th anniversary of historic NASA landing — Space photo of the week
About 40 minutes after it landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander sent this…
At the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the air is so thin and so dry that astronomers can see light from galaxies billions of light-years away with a clarity impossible at sea level — which is why 11 countries have built 13 major telescopes on what is technically a dormant volcano
At the summit of Mauna Kea, above roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s atmosphere and close to…
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Here are the final contenders
Four miles from the Eiffel Tower, a photographer captured the full moon’s path over a pink Paris skyline.…
Inside the High-Tech Effort to Keep Satellites Alive
A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday to slap life-extending jetpacks on…