NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
science Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028 The Titan dune field where NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will land…
High-energy fuel passes first rotating detonation rocket engine test
CycloKinetics is testing its alternative rocket fuel with Venus Aerospace in a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). The…
NASA’s Pluto Probe Could Lose 2 Key Instruments at a Crucial Moment
An iconic NASA probe is currently around 6 billion miles (9.7 billion kilometers) away from Earth, returning data…
An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects
Let’s start with the number that makes the rest of the story hard to picture: 200 billion. That…
SpaceX Rises 7% as Starship Test 14 Approaches, Tesla Jumps 7%, Rocket Lab Ticks Up
Starship test 14 is close enough to taste, and investors are already crowding into two specific Musk-linked names…
Penultimate Lunar Occultations Inbound for Jupiter, Venus and More in September
The Moon has a full dance card along the ecliptic this month. The Moon is busy in September.…
2 spacecraft will soon reach Mercury after 8 years in space. Here’s what BepiColombo can do
Mercury, the tiniest and least-explored planet in the inner solar system, is hiding mysteries far larger than itself…
‘A new mission starting today’: 8 years after launch, BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival
After nearly eight years traveling through the inner solar system, the trailblazing BepiColombo spacecraft has finally begun its…
Astronomers See How a Centaur Can Become a Comet
Centaurs are small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. Because they move among…
Galaxia Takes Next Step in Earth Observation with purchase of Simera Sense Hyperspectral Imager
European optical payload company’s imager enables wide-ranging hyperspectral imaging missions for commercial, civil and defence customers Deal speaks…
ESA – Hubble’s superbubble scene
This sprawling cosmic vista and subject of today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month comes from the Large Magellanic…
Rocket issues delay 1st-ever private mission to Venus: ‘We are awaiting Neutron readiness’
The future of a privately backed robotic mission Venus seems about as cloudy as the planet itself at…