SpaceX launched its 40th mission of the year this evening (April 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 6:40 p.m. EDT (2240 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth...

China is all set to send its next crew to its Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou 18 spacecraft currently sits atop a Long March 2F rocket, on its pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The rocket was transferred 0.93 miles (1.5 kilometers) by rail from the vertical integration building to the pad...

The Russian space agency Roscosmos conducted a successful orbital test launch of its new Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket, helping to open a new chapter of spaceflight for the nation. The Angara A5 lifted off April 11 on its fourth orbital test launch, and its first from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in...

A “devil comet” is about to rear its icy green head over Earth — but you’ll have to look soon to spot it. On April 21, the 10.5-mile-wide (17 kilometers) Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the “devil comet” or “Mother of Dragons comet,” will reach its...

Another one signs the (moon) dust. Sweden is the newest nation to sign onto NASA’s Artemis Accords for peaceful and responsible exploration. During a signing event in Stockholm on Tuesday (April 16), Swedish Minister for Education Mats Persson penned the agreement alongside U.S. Ambassador...

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (April 17) at 5:26 p.m. EDT (2126 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch as planned. It landed...

The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet...

Like Tom Cruise’s “Maverick” character in “Top Gun,” Boom Supersonic is feeling the need for speed. The Colorado company has received a first-of-its-kind approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to exceed Mach 1 during test flights of its XB-1...

Less than 2,000 light-years away from Earth, scientists have discovered a “sleeping giant”—the Milky Way’s largest stellar black hole, with a mass 33 times greater than that of our sun. Though the black hole, named Gaia BH3, is the second-closest known to our home planet, it is “dormant” and had...