SpaceX launches Northrop mission to extend the life of aging satellites
WASHINGTON — SpaceX on July 21 launched a Northrop Grumman robotic spacecraft designed to extend the lives of…
NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month
Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29,…
Billions of miles and thousands of years in the making: This is the life of a Perseid shooting star
Picture it: A slash of vivid green light splits the starry sky. There for a moment and then…
Astronomers Catch a “Dark Comet” Red-Handed
Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Starlink satellites to orbit a day after rare launch abort
Twenty-four Starlink satellites reached low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 21), a day later than originally scheduled due…
SpaceX launches Starlink mission from California a day after last-second abort – Spaceflight Now
The Starlink 17-39 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California…
Artemis III astronauts will beam 4k video from Orion to Earth using SpaceX Starlink lasers
Orion is getting an upgrade on Artemis III, and the astronauts aboard are getting WiFi (sort of). NASA…
China’s Chang’e-6 reveals why solar wind hits the Moon’s two sides differently
The Moon has been exposed to the solar wind for billions of years. However, new evidence shows that…
Coilable Stacked Solar Sails for Very High delta-V Missions
Artur Davoyan University of California, Los Angeles The goal of the proposed program is to enable the next…
A New Compact Instrument Enables High-Fidelity Measurements of Energetic Particles on CubeSats
A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the…
James Webb Space Telescope looks back in time 4.4 billion years photo of the day for July 21, 2026
The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. (Image credit: ESA/Webb,…
Watch SpaceX launch private satellite-servicing spacecraft to orbit today
SpaceX will launch a trailblazing satellite-servicing mission today (July 21), and you can watch the action live. A…