In a press release by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a group of South African astronomers from the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) and researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics discovered a rare white dwarf binary star system, 159...

China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, in what would be another advance in what’s increasingly seen as a new space race pitting the Asian autocracy against the United States and its democratic allies. The U.S. aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity describes how the fabric of space and time, or spacetime, is curved in response to mass. Our sun, for example, warps space around us such that planet Earth rolls around the sun like a marble tossed into a funnel (Earth does not fall into the sun...

A team of space scientists affiliated with several institutions in Czechia, Japan and the U.S. has found evidence of lightning pulses on Jupiter that are similar to those found on Earth. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group examined years of data from the Juno...

South Korea was set to launch its first commercial-grade satellite Wednesday as rival North Korea pushed plans forward to place its first military spy satellite into orbit. The South Korean satellite will be launched by a domestically made rocket under the country’s space development program...

Data received from Juno indicates the first four of 90 images taken by the spacecraft’s JunoCam outreach camera during its most recent flyby of Jupiter (Perijove 47) were degraded: two were unusable and two had a high level of image noise. The JunoCam team believes the loss of these images is due to...

Buduburam, Ghana – Victor Tagborloh, Co- founder and CEO of Galaxy Aerospace Ghana has announced the beginning of the space elevator project that will enable them to take Ghana to space by 2030. “We are starting our journey of creating the space elevator to orbit this May. And this marks the...

– Galaxy Aerospace Ghana (GAG), a leading aerospace company based in Ghana, and Science Journalism Ghana (SJG), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science journalism, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate and promote science and technology in Ghana. The...

Peggy Whitson, America’s most experienced astronaut with 665 days in space and 10 spacewalks over three stays aboard the International Space Station, is poised to build on her legacy as one of the consensus “GOATs” — greatest of all time — in the American space program...