12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025
2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few…
NASA warns: an action by China could, in theory, slightly slow down the Earth’s rotation
What human undertaking could make time itself slip by a hair? NASA points to a decision in China…
Record launches, reusable rockets and a rescue: China made big strides in space in 2025
China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar…
SpaceX scrubs year-end Falcon 9 launch again as Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed satellite waits at Vandenberg
NEW YORK, December 28, 2025, 21:00 ET SpaceX delayed the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM3 mission again on Sunday…
Meet the Solar System’s Real Highest Peak
At the western edge of Mars’s equatorial highlands, an enormous geological structure rises far above the planet’s thin…
Scientists capture a flash of light that lasted only ten seconds and turns out to have reached Earth after a journey of 13 billion years
Ten seconds. That is how long an intense burst of high-energy light lit up space in March 2025,…
CCTV Catches Meteor Lighting Up the Sky Over Mount Fuji in Breathtaking Scene
A meteor lit up the sky over Mount Fuji, Japan, in the early hours of Friday, captured on…
James Webb Space Telescope Had A Flaw That Rendered Certain Data Useless, But It Was Overcome Thanks To A PhD Student’s Efforts » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most impressive technological achievements ever. It has…
Welsh university’s scientists help confirm century-old black hole theory
An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the…
Exotic spaceplanes that failed to take off
With their thrilling sci-fi aesthetics, spaceplanes are an attractive alternative to rockets. They are attractive in practical ways,…
Public chooses names for China's space-traveled mice – news.cgtn.com
Public chooses names for China’s space-traveled mice news.cgtn.comSpace-traveling mouse births pups after returning to Earth: report Global Times“Mice astronauts” found…
ESA Cancels Call to Procure Commercial Cargo Services to the ISS
Credit: NASA / ESA / T. Pesquet The European Space Agency has cancelled a call for proposals to…