SpaceX says it has identified and fixed the problem that caused its Falcon 9 rocket to fail during a launch earlier this month. That failure occurred on July 11, as a Falcon 9 carried 20 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit. The rocket’s first stage performed...

Boeing’s Starliner will do a “hot fire” test in orbit soon, as NASA and the company continue to probe the cause of thruster failures and a helium leak in space. Starliner will conduct the test-fire of its 28-thruster reaction control system (RCS) on either Saturday (July 27) or...

Blue Origin has announced the crew for its next New Shepard space tourism flight. The diverse crew includes a NASA-funded researcher, a professor, a university student, a cardiologist and entrepreneurs, Blue Origin announced in a statement on Wednesday (July 24). The announcement signals that Blue...

China has test-fired a new engine for a planned rocket designed to take astronauts to the moon. The liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine, sometimes referred to as the YF-75E, was tested by the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the country’s state-owned...

“Why do we go to space?” asked NASA administrator Bill Nelson to a small crowd at NASA headquarters last week. “We go to explore the heavens, but we also go to improve life here on Earth, and that includes attacking this dreaded disease that we know is cancer.” Nelson was...

The solar system’s tiniest planet may be hiding a big secret. Using data from NASA‘s MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick diamond mantle may lie beneath the crust of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. Mercury has long puzzled scientists as it...

An astronaut crew’s rocket made its last major journey on Earth before blasting off for the moon. The core stage of Artemis 2‘s rocket came to NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Tuesday (July 23). The rocket stage was offloaded from NASA’s Pegasus barge, which...

Your internet connection today is brought to you by space. No, that’s not an ad from a science fiction movie; it’s the reality now thanks to SpaceX‘s ever-growing constellation of Starlink satellites. In June, SpaceX introduced its new version of its satellite internet antenna...

Russia has unveiled a comprehensive roadmap for building its newest space station and associated Earth-based infrastructure, with the first modules expected to launch within three years. On July 2, the leadership of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos described their upcoming to create the...