Beyond the Perseids — 6 meteor showers worth watching this summer
The Perseids may be the summer meteor shower everyone marks on the calendar, but they are not the…
China’s Tianwen-1 Captures Rare Close-Up Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss China’s Tianwen-1…
Another reusable rocket? Japan launches, lands RV-X prototype (video)
Japan has succeeded in the first-ever flight test of its RV-X experimental reusable rocket prototype. The launch —…
Sun-like star caught after eating one of its own planets
Astronomers have found strong evidence that TOI-5882, a sun-like star about 1,300 light-years from Earth, may have consumed…
Reliance Jio’s 1,600-LEO satellite plan gets IN-SPACe technical nod, moves closer to India’s first homegrown constellation
New Delhi: Space regulator IN-SPACe has adjudged Reliance Jio’s proposal to deploy about 1,600 low earth orbit (LEO)…
Turkish graduates build green thrusters for satellites
ISTANBUL ITU graduates Mustafa Ay and Hıdır İlyas Sezer developed an eco-friendly thruster for satellites. Stepping away from…
Axelspace Released First Images Captured by GRUS-3 Earth Observation Microsatellites
Commercial operations targeted to begin within 2026 Axelspace Corporation (“Axelspace”), a leading developer and operator of microsatellites dedicated…
Western Romania to witness total solar eclipse on August 12
A total solar eclipse will be visible from large areas of continental Europe, including the western part of…
In February 1985, the Soviet space station Salyut 7 went silent and began tumbling with dead batteries, frozen instruments and frost covering its windows; four months later, two cosmonauts docked with the powerless 20-tonne station by hand, entered wearing gas masks and brought it back to life with flashlights and improvised wiring
In February 1985 the Soviet space station Salyut 7 stopped answering. The station was empty at the time,…
NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, are giving astronomers their clearest look yet at…
In 2020 NASA installed a new female-friendly toilet on the International Space Station at a cost of about $23 million. The redesign was the first space toilet built specifically to work well for female as well as male astronauts, and 65 percent smaller and 40 percent lighter than the existing station toilet
$23 million is a big price tag for a toilet even if that figure covers two units, one…
SpaceX (SPCX) Is Down 14.7% After Starship Abort and Rising Scrutiny of Its Lofty Valuation
In mid-July 2026, SpaceX’s highly anticipated 13th Starship test flight was automatically aborted seconds before liftoff due to…