Space Science Stratolaunch achieves first powered flight of hypersonic test vehicle The curve-nosed test vehicle was dropped from the world's largest aircraft and safely landed in the Pacific Ocean By Erika Morphy, March 12, 2024, 4:54 PM
Space Science This "hycean" exoplanet could be covered in a boiling ocean Conflicting hypotheses try to explain the chemical mix detected by the JWST By Alfonso Maruccia, March 11, 2024, 8:35 AM
Space Tech Culture Boeing Starliner crewed flight to ISS delayed yet again Possibly, maybe, probably, the last delay... By James Miller, March 10, 2024, 1:14 PM 14 comments
Science Space Researchers propose installing a fiber network on the Moon Cables could help us learn more about moonquakes By Daniel Sims, March 7, 2024, 2:31 PM
Science Space "Goodnight, Odie": Odysseus lander's historic moon mission comes to an end Thank you, and good (lunar) night! By James Miller, March 2, 2024, 2:35 PM
Space Electronics Nikon is creating the first mirrorless camera for use on the Moon The handheld universal lunar camera will go up with Artemis III By Shawn Knight, March 1, 2024, 3:06 PM
Space Science The Odysseus lunar lander's payload included a 30-million page library It was the third time the Arch Mission Foundation tried to get this repository of knowledge to the Moon By Erika Morphy, February 26, 2024, 6:55 AM
Space Science US spacecraft successfully lands on the moon for the first time in over 50 years Apollo 17 was the last US mission to touch down on the lunar surface in 1972 By Kishalaya Kundu, February 23, 2024, 9:12 AM 12 comments
Science Space The universe's brightest object eats the mass of the sun every day, astronomers say 17 billion times the mass of Earth's sun and 500 trillion times brighter By Daniel Sims, February 21, 2024, 8:35 AM
Space Science Scientists find water on an asteroid's surface for the first time Findings could help answer how the Earth gained its water By Daniel Sims, February 21, 2024, 7:38 AM
Science Space A satellite heavier than a large car makes an uncontrolled return to Earth tomorrow, but don't worry too much You'd have to be very unlucky to be hit by it By Rob Thubron, February 20, 2024, 6:43 AM 8 comments
Space Science Intuitive Machines shares first images sent from space by its Nova-C lunar lander The spacecraft is in excellent condition, and the Moon's surface is approaching fast By Alfonso Maruccia, February 19, 2024, 10:26 AM
Space Electronics Mini robots and remote surgery offer new solutions for medical emergencies in space One small rubber band cut, a great leap for (space) surgery By Alfonso Maruccia, February 19, 2024, 7:46 AM
Space Science Nova-C lander is finally heading to the Moon A commercial spacecraft full of NASA science experiments and "demo" payloads By Alfonso Maruccia, February 16, 2024, 9:29 AM
Science Space NASA's Juno mission captures incredible new images of Jupiter New Jupiter photos from the Io flyby By Daniel Sims, February 14, 2024, 9:26 AM 15 comments
Science Space An experimental 3D printer will melt steel to create new objects... in space Printing metal objects aboard the ISS is a challenging, but potentially game-changing By Alfonso Maruccia, February 12, 2024, 2:13 PM
Space Science Saturn's "Death Star" moon has a 45-mile-deep subsurface ocean The ocean likely occupies half the moon's volume By Daniel Sims, February 9, 2024, 7:39 AM 7 comments
Science Space Jupiter orbiter delivers unprecedented close up images of highly volcanic Jovian moon Io The Juno spacecraft passed within 930 miles of the moon's surface By Cal Jeffrey, February 8, 2024, 4:31 PM
Space NASA will need a miracle to fix glitched Voyager 1 probe Corrupted memory is the likely culprit, but isolating it sans telemetry data is tough By Shawn Knight, February 8, 2024, 12:42 PM
Hardware Space Kioxia sent 130 TB of solid-state storage to the International Space Station SSDs are much better than magnetic hard disks for space-related computer missions By Alfonso Maruccia, February 5, 2024, 9:05 AM
Space The Web Starlink satellites exchange petabytes of data per day through space laser links Using the laser system to directly beam the internet to the surface is an entirely different matter By Alfonso Maruccia, February 1, 2024, 8:22 AM
Science Space Moonquakes and Lunar Landslides could endanger astronauts on the moon's south pole The moon is shrinking, which affects one of the possible Artemis 3 landing zones By Daniel Sims, January 27, 2024, 10:22 AM
Space Science Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" Its two rovers are operational, and the craft seems intact but is without power until February 1 By Cal Jeffrey, January 26, 2024, 4:46 PM 22 comments
Space Science NASA retires Ingenuity helicopter following rotor damage Ingenuity suffered a communications loss earlier this month By Shawn Knight, January 26, 2024, 12:14 PM
Space Science NASA discovers new exoplanet with a "lava hemisphere" in a distant star system A tidally-locked planet that is a bit too close to its host star for harboring life By Alfonso Maruccia, January 16, 2024, 2:07 PM 7 comments