Researchers have teased out the details of how sound behaves at various times and places on Mars — and the results are very different from what we are used to on Earth. NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars carries several microphones. These devices, intended to study the properties of materials...

China has selected 10 new astronauts for training as part of its goal to put a crew on the moon by 2030, the country’s human spaceflight agency announced last week. The latest batch includes eight pilots and two payload experts, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO)...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites from California on Tuesday night (June 18), ending a 10-day spaceflight drought for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 20 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, lifted off from Vandenberg Space...

A Falcon 9 rocket is now scheduled to launch Luxembourg-based telecom company SES’ Astra 1P satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday (June 20) during a nearly three-hour window that opens at 5:35 p.m. EDT (2135 GMT).  The liftoff had originally been...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-R series constellation is expected to be complete in space soon, pending a successful launch of its GOES-U satellite at the end of June. The mission will be historic for many reasons, including the fact it will mark the first...

NASA has picked a new date for the spacewalk that was postponed last weekend due to “spacesuit discomfort.” NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Matt Dominick were set to perform the International Space Station’s (ISS) 90th extravehicular activity (EVA 90) on June 13, and had already...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is holding a virtual public meeting this evening (June 17) about the potential environmental impact of SpaceX’s Starship operations in Florida, and you can participate online. SpaceX wants to launch its giant Starship megarocket from Pad 39A at...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken its first look at China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft on the moon’s far side. The Chang’e 6 lander is flanked by two craters similar in size to it and is on the edge of a much more subtle crater about 165 feet (50 meters)...

On June 17, 1985, the space shuttle Discovery launched on NASA’s STS-51G mission, carrying payload specialist Sultan Salman Abdelize Al Saud, a Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who became the first Arab and first Muslim in space. And because he was a prince in the House of Saud, he became the first...