The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced the winners of the 8th round of the KiboCUBE programme. This initiative, part of the United Nations/Japan Cooperation Programme on CubeSat Deployment, will see a joint team...

There are continual, creaky reminders that the International Space Station is showing its age. Hissy-fit pressure leaks in the Russian segment, loss of attitude control on two separate occasions in 2021. To remain safe and sound for human occupants, the massive structure requires continuous...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...