Space News

The next launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is slated for May 2022, company officials announced on Monday (Dec. 13).

A Sun-like star over 100 light-years away experienced a massive flare and ejection that would be devastating if it happened here. The post A Sun-Like Star Just Blasted out a Flare That Would be Devastating if it Happened...

NASA's Earth Science Division is preparing to launch four satellite missions in 2022 to provide observations of weather conditions, mineral dust, oceans and surface water. SpaceNews

Honeywell announced Dec. 15 it has teamed with telecommunications startup Skyloom to produce optical crosslink terminals for commercial and military satellites. SpaceNews

Scientists have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This unusual set of features may have been caused by eruptions from two supermassive bla...

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll do a little dance about today’s topic: cosmic strings! What if I told you that there might be relics from the ancient universe ...

Pléiades Neo 4, the second of four planned high-resolution images satellites built and operated by Airbus Defense and Space, entered service Dec. 15 free from an issue that prompted an insurance claim for Pléiades Neo ...

NASA has assigned two crew members to launch on the agency's SpaceX Crew-6 mission - the sixth crew rotation flight aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Several former employees have gone public with allegations of sexual harassment experienced at SpaceX.

Gathering near Las Vegas recently, dozens of astronomers spread throughout the region, pointed their telescopes at the sky and waited for the moment on Oct. 20 that the light from a faraway star blinked out.

A faulty data cable between the James Webb Space Telescope and launch pad equipment caused the big observatory's latest launch delay.

The first private mission to search for life on another planet is due to head to Venus in May 2023.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

The microgravity environment on the International Space Station (ISS) has a profound impact on cells and tissues, allowing researchers to conduct life sciences research in ways not possible on the ground. SpaceX's 24th C...

Sixty years ago, NASA set an out-of-this-world goal: to touch our sun. Sending a spacecraft to the fiery star at the center of our solar system is no small feat. From engineering a spacecraft that could hurtle 430,000 mp...

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll have to be careful around today’s topic: cosmic rays! Did you feel that? Something just hit you. It was a cosmic ray, a tiny ch...

Astronomers from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and elsewhere have detected a massive brown dwarf orbiting an M dwarf known as TOI-2119. The newly found object is nearly 70 times more massive than Jupiter...

In an astonishing feat of endurance, explorers Justin Packshaw and Jamie Facer Childs are a quarter of the way through a 3600-km kitesurf trek that takes them across the desolate heart of Antarctica. They are not pushing...

Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analog of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. Some 13 teams from across Europe and Canada ...

The notion of living in a bubble is usually associated with negative connotations, but all life on Earth is dependent on the safe bubble created by our magnetic field. Understanding how the field is generated, how it pro...

Australia's modern space story is only just beginning, and its progress today is a perfect example of how a nation is leveraging its resources and capabilities, making smart investments, and implementing focused strategi...

How did supermassive black holes form? What is dark matter? In an alternative model for how the Universe came to be, as compared to the 'textbook' history of the Universe, a team of astronomers propose that both of these...