NASA has cancelled its VIPER moon rover program due to rising costs. VIPER, short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, was a robotic mission intended to land near the moon’s south pole and spend 100 days scouting for lunar ice deposits. The rover was slated to launch in 2025 to...

The Intersputnik International Organisation of Space Communications and the Regional African Satellite Communications Organisation (RASCOM) have entered into a cooperation agreement covering satellite communications and other areas of shared interest. This agreement includes provisions for mutual...

SpaceX is seeking a rapid return to Falcon 9 launches following a rare failure of its workhorse rocket during a satellite launch last week. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) received a request from SpaceX on Monday (July 15) to continue launching Falcon 9 flights during the mandatory mishap...

The core stage of the first rocket to launch astronauts to the moon in over 50 years has left its manufacturing facility, and is bound for vehicle integration and assembly ahead of its launch next year. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Artemis 2 booster was rolled out of the space...

Key Highlight The Italy-Africa Space Conference will focus on education and training, space applications and services for a sustainable future, and international partnerships. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Honorable Antonio Tajani...

NASA is waiting to see if there will be “schedule impacts” for its next astronaut mission aboard SpaceX after a rocket failure last week, the agency said in a recent statement. SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket had a rare anomaly during a Starlink satellite launch on Thursday (July 11). The...

In recent months there has been a gradual build-up of excitement regarding the approach of a new comet with the moniker, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, cataloged officially as C/2023 A3. Comet Tsuchinchan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was first discovered at the Purple Mountain Observatory’s XuYi Station in China on...

Just as we were beginning to think “The sun has been rather quiet of late,” it silences the critics with an explosive X-class flare, the most powerful class of solar flare. The solar flare from sunspot AR3738 occurred late Saturday night (July 13) at 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UT on July 14)...

The Hubble Space Telescope has shown that dark matter is concentrated within the core of a nearby dwarf galaxy, a finding that rushes to the rescue of the Standard Model of cosmology. This model basically predicts dark matter to be “cold,” but recent findings have started to hint at the...