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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft meant to carry three astronauts to the International Space Station went through a rare abort on the launchpad just 21 seconds before it was supposed to launch. Yuri Borisov, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, later put out a statement saying the launch was postponed due to a voltage issue […]

SpaceX launched its 30th cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA this afternoon (March 21), carrying 3 tons of supplies and scientific hardware to the orbiting lab. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying an uncrewed Cargo Dragon spacecraft lifted off today at 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 GMT) from Space Launch Complex-40 (SLC-40) at

Rocket Lab launched from the U.S. for the fourth time ever on Thursday morning (March 21), sending mystery payloads aloft for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The NROL-123 mission — or “Live and Let Fly,” as Rocket Lab called it — lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility

The International Space University (ISU), in collaboration with ASPACE Satellite Technology Limited (ASPACE) and Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), has announced a fully funded tuition scholarship for the academic year 2025 to support ISU’s efforts to be inclusive in its student representation. ASPACE’s full-tuition scholarship is specifically designated for a single individual from underprivileged and

The Earth’s place in space is a fairly familiar one with it orbiting an average star. The star – our Sun – orbits the centre of our Galaxy the Milky Way. From here onwards, the story is less well known. The Milky Way is part of a large structure called the Laniakea Supercluster which is

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch three people, including one NASA astronaut, toward the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 21), and you can watch the action live. The rocket is scheduled to launch the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 9:21 a.m. EDT (1321 GMT; 6:21 p.m.

Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to happen relatively soon, cosmically speaking. Researchers have predicted for some time that this planet, named WASP-12b, will eventually take a dive into

A SpaceX Starlink launch lit up skies across the U.S. West Coast on Monday evening (March 18), leaving a dazzling trail seen for hundreds of miles. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast Monday at 10:28 p.m. EDT (7:28 p.m. local time; 0228 GMT on March

The first data from a new telescope array is in. The Condor Array has revealed a stunning look at a distant dwarf nova — a scene that offers astronomers a new, very-low-brightness view of the universe to marvel over. Condor is comprised of six refracting telescopes, which are united by computers to form a giant

Boeing has started fueling up its Starliner capsule ahead of the vehicle’s first-ever astronaut launch. That mission, called Crew Flight Test (CFT), is currently scheduled to launch in early May atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Florida’s Atlantic coast. It will send NASA astronauts Suni Williams