Who are SpaceX’s billionaire shareholders?
SpaceX‘s record-breaking IPO boosted founder and CEO’s Elon Musk‘s personal stake in the company to more than $1…
In late 2023, Voyager 1 began sending unreadable data from interstellar space. NASA engineers eventually traced the fault to corrupted memory in one of the probe’s computers, rewrote part of its 46-year-old software, transmitted the fix across more than 24 billion kilometres, and waited roughly 45 hours for confirmation that the patch had worked.
In late 2023, Voyager 1 stopped making sense. The spacecraft was still transmitting from interstellar space, but the…
NASA studied the entire lunar South Pole and narrowed humanity’s landing options to just nine candidate regions — on a body the size of a continent, the ground everyone wants is barely a few neighborhoods
NASA’s Artemis site selection team finished the most exhaustive survey of the lunar South Pole ever attempted and…
June’s Strawberry Moon Is the Final Micro Moon of 2026: Here’s How to See It
The full moon is usually the brightest object in the night sky, but not all full moons are…
Want to start stargazing? Here’s why June is the perfect time for newcomers
Each November in the Northern Hemisphere, the astronomy world cranks up a gear. As Orion’s Belt and the…
Scientists discover remnants of Jellyfish Nebula’s ‘sibling’ supernova
Millions of years ago two massive stars circled each other in a cosmic dance. Then one of the…
Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher
During a recent field test in the Colorado desert, a four-wheeled rover traveled across 16 miles (25 kilometers)…
Timelapse video: Rare, daytime lunar occultation astronomical phenomenon observed
A lunar occultation of Venus took place on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 17. Stunning timelapse footage by Rob…
SpaceX Is the 5th Most Valuable Public Company in the World. Can It Overtake Nvidia, Alphabet, Apple, or Microsoft?
In the three trading days from its June 12 initial public offering (IPO) to June 16, Space Exploration…
Why AST SpaceMobile’s (ASTS) BlueBird Launch Matters for Its Direct-to-Device Growth Test
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTS) is one of the fastest-growing space stocks to buy now. On June 17, AST…
4 Space Stocks to Load Up On While SpaceX Gets All the Attention
The blockbuster debut of Space Exploration Technologies — better known as SpaceX — has consumed the market’s attention…
An exoplanet with a daytime temperature hot enough to vaporize iron has methane on its nightside because of an atmospheric circulation that should not be able to exist at that heat
A team led by Thomas Evans-Soma of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg has published observations of…