The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
Landing from space The Zhuque-3, or ZQ-3, rocket lifted off from a commercial launch zone at China’s Jiuquan…
Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way | Astronomy
Astronomers have detected the fastest known star in the Milky Way, hurtling around the supermassive black hole at…
NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce
NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and streamline state-based pathways for students…
Perseverance rover watchs alien solar eclipse on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 19, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover saw a solar eclipse from the Martian surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) People around the…
A camera the size of a small car, sitting on a mountain in Chile, began taking a new image of the southern sky every 40 seconds on 30 June 2026 — building a ten-year time-lapse of the universe that will scan the entire southern sky every few nights and issue up to seven million alerts a night whenever something moves or flickers.
On 30 June 2026, a camera roughly the size of a small car stopped being primarily an engineering…
‘Zhuque returns to the nest’: a space gift from China to the world on Qixi Festival
This screenshot from a video clip shows the first stage of the Zhuque-3 Y2 rocket successfully completing its…
US Air Force flight to Antarctica turns back after space activity warning
A US Air Force flight bound for Antarctica returned to New Zealand after a warning about “potentially hazardous”…
Astronomers discover a giant, rocky ‘mega-Earth’ 23 times more massive than our planet
Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive, dense exoplanet that challenges conventional ideas about how rocky planets form. Called…
Closest black hole to Earth is Gaia BH1, 1,600 lightyears
The closest black hole to Earth is a stellar mass black hole just 1,600 lightyears away called Gaia…
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in July 2028 and spend six and a half years crossing the solar system to land on a moon that has weather, seasons, rivers and seas — with methane and ethane flowing across its surface instead of water.
In July 2028, if the current schedule holds, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will rise from the same Florida…
China becomes first nation to recover orbital launch rockets with 2 distinct paths
In a global first, leading Chinese commercial rocket company LandSpace has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital…
SpaceX Starship the talk of remote Australian island as Elon Musk’s engineers sent to retrieve it | SpaceX
Engineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX are on their way to a remote Australian island to retrieve part of…