A European moon lander being developed to provide the continent autonomous access to the moon is targeted to launch in 2031, according to a development call published last week by the European Space Agency (ESA). The robotic lander, called Argonaut, is expected to lift off on an Ariane 6 rocket...

Using a NASA X-ray telescope mounted on the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have weighed a rapidly spinning dead star that signifies the heart of the closest millisecond pulsar to Earth. Like all neutron stars, pulsars are born when massive stars die, but what really sets millisecond...

Key Highlights Yahsat partnered with Satcom Technologies to explore new satellite communication opportunities for socio-economic benefits in Zimbabwe. Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat), in partnership with Satcom Technologies, hosted a high-level forum on 17 July with various...

Photos of the moon captured by American, Russian, European, Japanese, Indian, Korean and Chinese spacecraft are the subject of new United Nations (UN) postage stamps commemorating the 55th anniversary of the NASA‘s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. The UN Postal Administration (UNPA) will...

A new quantum computer has broken a world record in “quantum supremacy,” topping the performance of benchmarking set by Google’s Sycamore machine by 100-fold. Using the new 56-qubit H2-1 computer, scientists at quantum computing company Quantinuum ran various experiments to...

Key Highlight NIGCOMSAT partners with the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) to support Nigeria’s broadcasting services Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) has partnered with the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) to provide uplink services on the NIGCOMSAT...

NASA is honoring a ‘hidden figure’ and all of the women who contributed to the Apollo program with the naming of a building in Houston, where at the time of the moon missions it was part of the “Manned” Spacecraft Center. The agency’s Johnson Space Center (renamed for...

NASA administrator Bill Nelson is calling for unity among both major U.S. political parties amid the 55th anniversary of the first human moon landing on Saturday (July 20). The former Democratic politician’s new speech was released on YouTube; in it, he says “historic times, even what...

This first ever private spacewalk will be bringing some serious style to outer space. SpaceX‘s privately-funded crewed mission, Polaris Dawn, is moving toward a launch sometime this summer. The four-person crew, which includes the mission’s funder, billionaire philanthropist Jared...