On Saturday (Aug. 24), NASA announced its final decision regarding the fates of the two astronauts aboard the International Space Station whose original eight-day space jaunt had turned into a nebulous multi-month excursion. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched to the ISS aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule on June 5, will return home no earlier …

Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Return Home On A SpaceX Dragon In 2025, NASA Confirms. Read More »

Two women astronauts will set a spaceflight record next week, if all goes according to plan. The Polaris Dawn mission is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Aug. 27. It aims to perform the first-ever private spacewalk and to fly at a higher altitude above Earth than any crewed …

SpaceX’s Private Polaris Dawn Mission Will Set Altitude Record For Female Astronauts. Read More »

Starlink has introduced a new rental kit option to the Kenyan market to make its satellite internet services more accessible. With the new kit, customers can now rent the hardware for KSH 1,950 (USD 15) a month, with an additional one-time activation fee of KSH 2,730 (USD 21). This move addresses concerns over the high …

Starlink Introduces Kit Rental Option to the Kenyan Market. Read More »

Scientists are trying to build a new sort of satellite, and have recently tested their idea with the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment, or “StarFOX.” You may be getting flashbacks to the retro Star Fox video game series — and you’d be right to imagine this experiment as a science fiction fantasy brought into reality. There …

StarFOX Autonomous Satellite Swarm Could Level Up Space Exploration. Read More »

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to billions times the mass of the Sun. These giants usually live in the centers of galaxies. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a supermassive black hole in its …

Supermassive Black Holes Have Masses Of More Than A Million Suns – But Their Growth Has Slowed As The Universe Aged. Read More »

Believe it or not, debris from Mars has frequently made its way to Earth after powerful impacts hit the Red Planet’s surface and launch it into space. There have been at least 10 of these meteorite-forming events in Mars’ recent history. When these massive impacts occur, meteorites can be flung away from the Red Planet …

200 Meteorites On Earth Traced To 5 Craters On Mars. Read More »

As Boeing’s first crewed Starliner test flight nears the 80-day mark of what was initially an eight-day mission, NASA leaders will give an update on Saturday (Aug. 24) to outline their plan on how to return Starliner’s astronaut crew to Earth. The press conference, which is scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT), …

NASA Will Give A Boeing Starliner Update On Aug. 24 And You Can Watch Live. Read More »

Zambia has marked a significant milestone in its journey to space by completing a ground receiving station in the Chibombo district, Central Province. This achievement, announced by the Minister of Technology and Science, Hon. Felix Chipota Mutati, signals the beginning of the second phase of Zambia’s space activities, eventually leading to the launch of the …

Zambia Takes Major Step Forward with Ground Receiving Station, Paving the Way for First Satellite Launch. Read More »

SpaceX is gearing up for more-frequent launches of its Starship megarocket. The company currently sends Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, aloft from an orbital launch mount at Starbase, its site near the South Texas border city of Brownsville. But SpaceX is working to install a second launch pad at the facility, …

SpaceX Stacks 2nd Starship Launch Tower In Texas. Read More »

The crew for SpaceX’s next astronaut mission will wait one extra day before launching to space. SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission — the first in history to feature a private spacewalk —was slated for Monday, Aug. 26, but will now launch no earlier than Tuesday, Aug. 27. The shift comes two days after the Polaris Dawn …

SpaceX Delays Launch of Polaris Dawn Private Spacewalk Mission to Aug. 27. Read More »