Spin-Reversing Comet May Face Self-Destruction
Comets are known for providing breathtaking observations of their long and shiny tails when they travel too close…
How are rockets recovered? China pioneers “net-capture” recovery! | Aerospace | Technology
Published : 2026-07-23 China’s Long March 10B (長征十號乙) rocket completed its maiden flight on 10 July 2026, achieving…
Should Scientists Have Research “Reserves” on the Moon?
The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary scientists…
Should Artemis IV astronauts actually land near the moon’s south pole? Artemis II pilot says the lunar equator might be better
The moon’s south pole has long been the target of NASA’s Artemis lunar landing missions, but one Artemis…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the plume images for camera errors
When Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in March 1979, scientists expected its moon Io to be cold, battered…
FCC approves launch of satellite designed to reflect sunlight back to Earth
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a satellite launch on Thursday to test a reflector designed to…
Scientists think at least two of Uranus’s moons — Titania and Oberon — may harbour liquid water oceans beneath their icy crusts, kept warm not by the sun but by radioactive decay deep in their interiors. If true, they join a growing list of ocean worlds in the solar system
At nearly three billion kilometres from the Sun, the moons of Uranus receive little of the solar energy…
Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of…
Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn’s moon Titan
Picture a car-sized machine sitting on an orange, frozen plain. It powers up eight rotors, rises into a…
Vulcan Centaur swapped out again: NASA goes with SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch of space weather mission
NASA is shaking things up for its next mission to research the sun. The six satellites of NASA’s…
Skylab cost roughly $2.2 billion, hosted nine astronauts across three missions and remained in orbit for just over six years — before breaking apart over Western Australia, where its remains became museum exhibits, Lucite-encased souvenirs and, according to local accounts, even a cattle trough.
Skylab began as one of the most ambitious machines the United States had ever placed in orbit and…