At the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, which was held from February 14th – 15th, 2024, the Executive Council of the African Union elected and appointed the first African Space Council to advance the operationalisation of the African...

India plans to launch a powerful weather satellite to orbit on Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch the action live. The INSAT-3DS satellite is scheduled to lift off atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) on Saturday at 7:05 a.m. EST (1205 GMT; 5:35 p.m. local India time)...

Titan’s underground ocean, and similar oceans inside other icy moons in the outer solar system, may lack the organic chemistry necessary for life, according to new astrobiological research. Titan is Saturn‘s largest moon, and the second largest moon in the entire solar system. It’s...

Dr Ayman Ashour, Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, has announced Egypt’s milestone in receiving the initial data image captured by the experimental satellite NExSat-1, a collaborative effort with the esteemed German company BST. This success aligns with the steadfast...

Water molecules have been detected on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, revealing new clues about the distribution of water in our solar system. Scientists studied four silicate-rich asteroids using data gathered by the now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy...

CubeSpace ADCS, a South African spacecraft component manufacturer focusing on designing and manufacturing control systems and spacecraft attitude determination, has raised ZAR 47 million in venture capital funding to expand its operations into international markets, Engineering News reports. The...

SpaceX postponed the launch of a private moon lander built by Intuitive Machines late Tuesday (Feb. 13) due to a temperature issue with the spacecraft’s liquid methane fuel. The Odysseus moon lander was originally scheduled to launch toward the moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the...

According to the French media, La Tribune, Morocco signed an agreement with an Israeli company to build the country’s new surveillance satellite in December 2023. Although the news has not been officially confirmed or denied, neither has the signing of the contract been ratified or refuted by the...

For the first time, astronomers have detected dark matter hanging from massive filaments that stretch across the universe and form a “cosmic web” that trap galaxies like morning dew on a spiderweb. Researchers from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, used the Subaru Telescope — an...