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Boeing Starliner’s two astronauts knew to expect the unexpected when they took off on the spacecraft’s first crewed mission on June 5. I learned this back in March, when NASA hosted reporters at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston for two days. We used four Starliner simulators, spoke at length with senior agency […]

Observing a distant and messy collision between galaxy clusters, astronomers have discovered that dark matter, the most mysterious “stuff” in the universe, passed through the wreckage like a cosmic phantom. The dark matter was detected racing away from the conventional “normal” matter that comprises stars, planets, moons and everything we see around us in the

The Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Japanese space exploration firm ispace has finished building a micro lunar rover, which is now set to fly to the moon. The newly assembled rover is soon set to be transported to Japan for integration into ispace’s HAKUTO-R lander. The lander-rover combo is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9

SpaceX reportedly in talks with US, Australian officials to land Starship rocket off Australian coast and recover it in Australian territory US aerospace company SpaceX is reportedly in talks with US and Australian officials over a plan to land a Starship rocket off Australia’s coast, part of a trend toward increasing security ties between the

Brigadier Hillary Kipkosgey, the Acting Director General of the Kenya Space Agency (KSA), hosted a series of meetings last Friday to discuss potential collaborations in space technology and its applications. These discussions, held at KSA headquarters in Nairobi, aimed to strengthen KSA’s position in the global space sector and enhance its contribution to national development.

United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) venerable Atlas V rocket will fly its final national security mission on Tuesday morning (July 30), and you can watch the action live. The Atlas V is is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday at 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045 GMT), on a classified mission for the

The sun has certainly had a busy weekend. Not only has our star fired off multiple M-class solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (eruptions of magnetic field and solar plasma), but now it’s topped it all off with a colossal X-class solar flare. The eruption peaked on July 28 at 10:33 p.m. EDT (0233 GMT

Dead stars may produce intense flashes of light through the power of gravity itself, researchers have demonstrated. Understanding this phenomenon could reveal new insights about some of the largest, most mysterious explosions in the universe. Neutron stars are among the strangest objects in the universe. These collapsed cores of massive stars are incredibly dense, hosting

SpaceX wasn’t grounded for long. The company launched 23 of its Starlink broadband satellites from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday (July 27) at 1:45 a.m. EDT (0545 GMT). It was SpaceX‘s first liftoff since July 11, when a Falcon 9 suffered an upper-stage failure that led to

Excitement about the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics extends out into space. The six NASA astronauts currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) held their own mini-Olympics to mark the start of the games, which are being held in Paris and other sites around France. We get a glimpse at the spaceflyers’ lighthearted