The sun has just unleashed its most powerful solar flare this cycle, a colossal X-class eruption. The X9.05 solar flare peaked at 8:10 a.m. EDT (1210 GMT), triggering shortwave radio blackouts over Africa and Europe, the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption. The solar flare emanated from...

A long-running leak is the top “safety risk” affecting the plan to keep astronauts on board the International Space Station until 2030, a new NASA audit found. The affected area, found in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), has been leaking for five years and...

This month, Earth will briefly gain a second moon, a small asteroid known as 2024 PT5. According to space.com, unlike Earth’s permanent companion the actual moon, which has orbited the planet for roughly 4 billion years, this “mini-moon” will only remain in Earth’s orbit for...

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2’s science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. Voyager 2 launched into space on Aug. 20, 1977 and left the solar system on Nov. 5, 2018. It is currently 12.8 billion miles (20.5 billion...

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Defence, Honourable Soipan Tuya, co-chaired the 2nd Council of Ministers Meeting together with Italy’s Minister for Enterprises and Made in Italy, Honourable Senator Adolfo Urso, at the Luigi Broglio Malindi Space Centre, in Malindi, Kenya on 1st October 2024. The...

United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket is ready for its second-ever liftoff, which is targeted for Friday (Oct. 4). ULA conducted a launch readiness review (LRR) today (Oct. 2) for Vulcan Centaur‘s second mission, a test flight called Cert-2 that’s designed to...

Two astronauts who were supposed to be in space right now say they are still glad to be part of the ground team. Until recently, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson were assigned to SpaceX‘s Crew-9 mission. But their Crew Dragon spacecraft left without them on Saturday (Sept. 28)...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring an investigation of the anomaly a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket experienced during the Crew-9 astronaut launch on Sept. 28. That liftoff successfully sent a Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr...

China has strutted out its moon-landing spacesuit, unveiling its design in a ceremony Saturday (Sept. 28) in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. A technician put the spacesuit — which China aims to start using on crewed moon missions by 2030 — through its paces, showcasing various...