A mysterious object that came crashing through a house in Florida is possibly debris from the International Space Station (ISS). The cylindrical tube was a few inches long and weighed nearly 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms). It crashed through the roof and both floors of Alejandro Otero’s home in...

Mars’ rusty red surface may have given it its famous “Red Planet” status, but it would also appear that thousands of white rocks are strangely littered on the Martian ground. NASA’s Perseverance rover, a robotic geologist that has been exploring the Jezero Crater since early...

Three definitely isn’t a crowd for planets around a distant infant star. Astronomers had already discovered two planets forming in the disk of gas and dust, or protoplanetary disk, around the infant star PDS 70. Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers with the MIRI...

Major General Sameh Katta, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Egyptian Satellite Company Nilesat has announced the company’s robust financial performance for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2023. Nilesat recorded profits amounting to USD 43.754 million, marking a...

The five-day push will accommodate high levels of activity on the International Space Station. The first crewed launch of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule has been delayed by an additional five days, to May 6. NASA and Boeing had been targeting May 1 for the highly anticipated Starliner mission...

The flaming wreck appears to be the orbital module from China’s Shenzhou 15 astronaut mission, which launched in November 2022. A big piece of Chinese space junk crashed to Earth over Southern California early Tuesday morning (April 2), putting on quite a show for observers in the Golden...

An unusual “horned” comet is now visible in the night sky and may even make a rare appearance during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. An unusual “horned” comet is now visible in the night sky — and it may even make a rare appearance during the 2024 total solar...

NASA’s sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe peered into the depths of a coronal mass ejection (CME) for the first time, revealing new details within the violent solar phenomenon. Every so often, the sun’s simmering magnetic field burps colossal clouds of plasma out into the space beyond. These...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Monday (April 1). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Bad weather scuttled two previous tries at the launch. This time the weather cooperated and the Falcon 9...