What will a human mission to Mars look like?
NASA astronauts work on the surface of Mars accompanied by a robotic helicopter and rover as imagined in…
Starwatch: tracking down Aries, the faint ram of winter skies | Astronomy
You can track down one of the zodiac’s fainter constellations this week. Aries, the ram, lies between Taurus…
Celestis books Stoke Space rocket for 2nd-ever deep space memorial flight for human remains
Texas-based Celestis Inc., the space burial remembrance company that has made a name for itself delivering cremated remains…
Starlink halts services in Papua New Guinea amid licensing dispute
Starlink has fully withdrawn its satellite internet services from Papua New Guinea as the government continues to grapple…
The Origami Wheel That Could Explore Lunar Caves
Beneath the Moon’s cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter…
JWST Looked Closer at a ‘Dead Rock’ Planet, What It Found Was a Lava-Filled Inferno
TOI-561 b, a rocky exoplanet roughly twice the mass of Earth, orbits its host star at a blistering…
HyPrSpace looks for applications beyond launch for its hybrid propulsion technology
WASHINGTON — A French launch startup that recently closed a funding round is seeking defense applications for its…
Astronomers find an unexpected compact cluster at the edge of the solar system
Astronomers have found a compact new cluster of objects inside the Kuiper belt, which is a distant band…
Starlink rival launches world’s largest commercial satellite to space
Texas firm AST SpaceMobile has successfully launched its BlueBird 6 satellite. The company is known for building large…
2026 in space: Moon missions return, eclipses sweep Europe and auroras continue
From a visiting comet from another starto the return of stranded NASA astronauts to a record number of…
13 must-see moon events in 2026 — Eclipses, supermoons, conjunctions and more
A bevy of supermoons, a dramatic total solar eclipse and a “blood moon” total lunar eclipse are some…
Astronomers stunned by massive gamma-ray burst that lasted for hours instead of minutes
When gamma-ray bursts were first discovered by the military, their declassified origin left astrophysicists puzzled. They couldn’t explain…