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…
UK and Florida forge new space partnership to back joint innovation
UK-Florida space agreement establishes a £300,000 joint fund to help turn innovative ideas into commercial reality. Agreement supports…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission – Spaceflight Now
Following its launch in summer 2026, Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle (left) will install Mission Extension Pod (right)…
Astronomers find the first atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone
Astronomers have reached a major turning point in the search for life beyond Earth by detecting an atmosphere…
Galaxy cluster’s magnetic field reconstructed for 1st time with record-breaking astronomy map
For the first time, astronomers have reconstructed the magnetic field of an entire cluster of galaxies, from its…
China plans to smash spacecraft onto asteroid in major test to protect Earth
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SpaceX targets July 23 for crucial Starship Flight 13 test launch after abort
SpaceX has pushed the next launch of its Starship megarocket back a few more days. Elon Musk‘s company…
Giant, milky-green vortex swirls across massive ‘cryptodepression’ lake in Southern Europe — Earth from space
QUICK FACTS Where is it? Lake Skadar, Montenegro and Albania [42.201087364, 19.303135741] What’s in the photo? A giant,…
Detection Of A Four-Carbon Sugar In Interstellar Space
Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first…
IHI explores Kuva hyperspectral satellites for Japan’s multi-sensor constellation
TAMPA, Fla. — Japan’s IHI is considering adding next-generation hyperspectral satellites from Finnish startup Kuva Space to its…
In May 1973, Skylab reached orbit with its heat shield torn away, one solar wing gone and the other jammed, leaving America’s first space station at roughly 54°C — so engineers built a parasol in days and astronauts carried it up to save the laboratory
Skylab reached orbit on 14 May 1973, but the achievement almost ended before anyone could live aboard it.…
Northern Lights to fill Hexham Moot Hall in free aurora show
The exhibition, titled Aurora DeepTime, has been made by Northumbria University’s Sensing Remoteness research group for the Cosmic…