Add Switzerland to the list! Swiss Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin joined NASA administrator Bill Nelson Monday (April 15), at the space agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to become the latest country to sign on to the agency’s Artemis Accords for moon exploration. “Today, we...

To see the word’s premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point 2, a location in deep space on the opposite side of Earth from the sun that is farther away than any human has ever traveled. Or, soon, you can visit Colorado. Northrop Grumman...

An abundance of gases, including carbon and oxygen, are being stripped away from Venus’ atmosphere, according to flyby data from Europe’s BepiColombo space probe. This data was obtained as the Mercury-bound spacecraft flew past Venus, and could shed new light on the leaky atmosphere of...

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara was prepared for her first spacewalk — but not for the view. O’Hara, along with SpaceX Crew-7 NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, conducted the fourth all-woman spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 1, 2023. They spent 6 hours and 42 minutes...

Venus Aerospace has completed the inaugural test flight of a drone fitted with its “rotating detonation rocket engine” (RDRE) — accelerating it to just under the speed of sound. The company wants to one day build superfast commercial jets using this new type of engine. In the test...

A NASA solar sail mission meant to test new space travel materials in Earth’s orbit is scheduled to lift off no sooner than April 24, the space agency announced on Thursday (April 11). Named the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, the mission’s primary goal is to test the...

TRL Space Rwanda, a sister company of the Czech-based TRL Space, is spearheading an ambitious initiative to establish Africa’s first satellite and equatorial constellation hub. This pioneering effort has garnered significant acclaim, with the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, commending...

South Korea’s “artificial sun” has set a new fusion record after superheating a plasma loop to 180 million degrees Fahrenheit (100 million degrees Celsius) for 48 seconds, scientists have announced. The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) reactor broke the...

Dana Weigel, the first woman to helm the International Space Station program manager, says she’s excited to oversee so much commercial space activity on the orbiting complex. Weigel officially took helm of the International Space Station (ISS) program manager position on Sunday (April 7)...