It has been 38 years since Halley’s Comet last passed through the inner solar system. This famous comet takes roughly 75 years to circle the sun. But if you’re 42 years old or younger, you probably have little or no memory of the 1986 appearance of this famous cosmic vagabond (your next...

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) hosted the Earth Observation (EO) for Climate Change stakeholder engagement workshop on 29 April 2024. The objective of the workshop was to showcase some of the Earth observation and Earth intelligence activities that are currently being undertaken in...

Lúnasa Space, a UK-based startup focused on next-gen autonomous navigation systems for in-space vehicles, announced today a contract worth €611k with the European Space Agency (ESA), under the NAVISP Element 2 programme. Lúnasa will further develop its novel high-precision, COTS-based, Relative...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (May 2), on the second half of a spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:37 p.m. EDT (0237 GMT on May 3). The...

China is set to launch its next robotic moon mission on Friday (May 3), and you can watch the action live. A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang’e 6 lunar far side sample return mission is scheduled to launch between 5:17 a.m. EDT (0917 GMT) and 6:18 a.m. EDT (1018 GMT) on Friday. The...

More than 27,000 asteroids in our solar system had been overlooked in existing telescope images — but thanks to a new AI-powered algorithm, we now have a catalog of them. The scientists behind the discovery say the tool makes it easier to find and track millions of asteroids, including potentially...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has performed a weather report for a distant planet. The powerful space telescope forecasts extreme wind speeds, blisteringly hot temperatures and blankets of rock clouds for the world, named Wasp-43b. As such, the extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,”...

Last night (April 30), the sun released an extremely powerful solar flare triggering widespread radio blackouts across the Pacific region. The flare peaked at 7:46 p.m. EDT (2346 GMT) and ended shortly after at 7:58 p.m. EDT (2358). Solar flares are eruptions from the sun‘s surface that emit...

A new telescope billed as the world’s highest astronomical site is officially open for business. The Japanese University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, or TAO, which was first conceptualized 26 years ago to study the evolution of galaxies and exoplanets, is perched on top of a tall mountain in...