For more than six decades, NASA has been the world’s lodestar for exploration. We designed the rockets, trained the astronauts and landed on the moon when the idea was barely…
China’s state-owned and commercial rocket makers have plans for yet more new launch vehicles, despite an already competitive field and imminent test flights. The post New rocket plans continue to…
A novel propulsion system will be called upon to perform a life-or-death maneuver hours after the deployment of a South Korean cubesat on next year’s Artemis 2 mission. The post…
The company won the $4 billion ‘Space Force Range Contract’ for Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg operations. The award had been challenged by the previous incumbent RGNext The post Amentum begins…
LONDON – A day after the British government announced plans to fold the UK Space Agency into the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), industry leaders said the move…
Earth’s atmosphere is large, extending out to around 10,000 km from the surface of the planet. It’s so large, in fact, that scientists break it into five separate sections, and…
Neil Armstrong almost made a mistake. He had found an interesting rock sticking out of a formation. Curious to see what the rock was made of, he needed to examine…
In 2022, astronomers announced the discovery of GJ 3929b. It’s a rocky planet, similar to Earth in both mass and size. Astronomers have examined the planet with the JWST and…
The JWST has found another moon orbiting Uranus. It’s the planet’s 29th known moon, and it bears the uninspiring, temporary name S/2025 U1. It’s too small and faint to be…
SpaceX has moved its giant Super Heavy booster to the launch pad ahead of Sunday’s (Aug. 24) planned liftoff of the Starship megarocket.
