Have you seen Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS yet? If you want to see something to rival Thursday's global display of Northern Lights (or if you missed the entire show), the sight of a naked-eye comet in the post-sunset sky is unmissable.
SpaceX is preparing for what could be a launch and catch of the booster tomorrow. Ryan Hansen has an excellent video with renderings of all mechanisms and processes that will be used on the Mechazilla launch tower.
Radian Aerospace has $31 million of funding to develop a single stage to orbit spaceplane. It will use a 3000 meter long sled to get it up to launch speed. It will deliver 2.27 tons to anywhere on Earth in under one hour. It can land on a regular run
Europa is a moon of Jupiter. It has volcanos that spew water. There is liquid water on Europa under a thicky icy shell.
Europa is one of the most likely places for life in the solar system.
The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a
ESA's Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA's experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. At 14:52 GMT, the robotic probe lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket to begin its three-year mission.
The most abundant metal known to man is iron. It's everywhere. Not just on Earth, but in space as well. Astro engineers have just figured out how to use iron – or nearly any metal for that matter – as plasma rocket fuel.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch the NASA Europa Clipper mission in a few days. It was going to be October 10, 2024 but that has been delayed due to the risk of a hurricane.
China is planning to put people on the Moon around 2030 and is showing off the new space suits they'll be wearing. At a media event, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) had two astronauts put the suits through their paces for the cameras.
Just two weeks after SpaceX completed the historic Polaris Dawn mission, which included the first private spacewalk and the highest orbit since the Apollo era...
Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years.
Starlink includes all orbiting LEO and VLEO satellites used for broadband and direct-to-device /to-cell (D2D /D2C), including those that have not yet reached destination altitudes -or are in decay mode.
The Mars Society explored the idea of using advanced robotics for Mars exploration, as evidenced by competitions like the Telerobotic Mars Expedition Design Competition.
Days after returning to Earth, the four civilian crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission opened up about their experience seeing the planet from orbit, floating in weightlessness and conducting the world's first all-civilian spacewalk.