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Watch Artemis 2 race back to Earth in this telescope livestream tonight

A Virtual Telescope Project livestream will track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft as it races back toward Earth. Here's how…

3 months ago

Heather Pringle on the upcoming Space Symposium and future international collaboration in space

In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss interviews Heather Pringle, a retired Major General of the…

3 months ago

China conducts pair of Long March launches for Thousand Sails and Guowang megaconstellations

China carried out separate Long March 8 and Long March 6A launches this week, adding new batches of satellites to…

3 months ago

A new kind of arsenal: commercial satellites

he Pentagon is no longer asking whether commercial space will matter in future conflicts. It is building a strategy around…

3 months ago

Could We Actually Terraform Mars? A New Scientific Roadmap Lays Out the Blueprint—And the Risks

Reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the Red Planet…

3 months ago

What returning to lunar space means for human health

Preparing to send astronauts back to the moon is no small feat. Spaceflight exposes the body to both known and…

3 months ago

A Volcanic Medley Near Mammoth Lakes

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Volcanic Medley Near Mammoth… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics…

3 months ago

Webb’s Picture of the Month Features Two Planet-Forming Disks and a Possible Planet

Two images of protoplanetary disks side-by-side. The left image shows a dark horizontal band covering the star, with broad, colorful,…

3 months ago

A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator

A Mercury lander mission would create opportunities to sample unique geological features. However, extreme temperature fluctuations on Mercury’s surface pose…

3 months ago

Improved thresholds and SSA accuracy can reduce most satellite collision risk

Improving the accuracy of space situational awareness data and using tighter thresholds for potential conjunctions can help retire most satellite…

3 months ago