Space News

An uncrewed Russian cargo spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station after a two-day journey to deliver food, fuel and supplies for the orbiting outpost's crew.

Signs of technology might point to life in the universe, but we have to ask what really gives rise to technology in the first place --

The first true Super Heavy booster was rolled out of the high bay where it was stacked to a launch pad Thursday (July 1) at SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson will be on the company's next flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle July 11, going to space days before fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos. SpaceNews

The center of Hurricane Elsa has formed to the east of the Windward and southern Leeward islands and is expected to bring heavy rainfall to those areas over the weekend, according to an update Friday from the National Hu...

NASA is seeking proposals to begin the next phase of Artemis lunar lander services, moving quickly despite unresolved protests about its selection of SpaceX to develop a lunar lander. SpaceNews

Radiation exposure limits on how long astronauts can stay up in orbit. But that cap isn't equal for all astronauts, and experts are now backing NASA's effort to change it.

Amazon Prime has dialed its mighty marketing machine up to 11 for its new sci-fi blockbuster starring Chris Pratt, but how does it actually rate?

A new study disputes the prevailing hypothesis on why Mercury has a big core relative to its mantle (the layer between a planet's core and crust). For decades, scientists argued that hit-and-run collisions with other bod...

When the U.S. Space Force's Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 13, it carried a payload designed and built in record time by Lawrence Livermore National Lab...

To appreciate how Japan's space ecosystem functions today, consider where it started. SpaceNews

At long last, the definitive discovery completes a trifecta of astrophysical events that were forecast by gravitational-wave astronomers --

Researchers from the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new method to realize absolute calibration of multi-mode satellite navigation receiver delay.

After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes took place in Kiruna, Sweden. The 15 m-wide first stage main parachute performed flawlessly at su...

An uncrewed Russian Progress 78 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station's Poisk module on the space-facing side of the Russian segment at 8:59 p.m. EDT, two days after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodro...

Week in images: 28 June - 02 July 2021 Discover our week through the lens

Part of the Frisian Islands, a low-lying archipelago just off the coast of northern Europe, is visible in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission....

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. The cluster--which is in the constellation Tu...

NASA has issued a formal policy that standardizes the criteria and process for media accreditation to cover events and activities at all agency locations.

NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on Mars, the Perseverance rover, is beginning an epic journey across a crater floor seeking signs of ancient life. That means the rover team is deeply engaged with planning navigation rout...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has learned about the benefits of satellite data in the battle against climate change during a visit to the Glasgow facilities of Earth observation company Spire.

After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes took place in Kiruna, Sweden.The 15 m-wide first stage main parachuteperformed flawlesslyat super...