China just notched another big spaceflight milestone. The Beijing startup LandSpace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), becoming the first Chinese company ever…
HELSINKI — Landspace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket Tuesday following the second launch of the rocket from the Gobi Desert. The second Zhuque-3 rocket lifted off…
The company will use a Photon spacecraft to test interoperability with the Space Data Network’s core infrastructure built by SpaceX The post Rocket Lab to test Space Force data network…
Astronomers know that evolved AGB stars shed their outer layers, contributing to the makeup of the interstellar medium. But new JWST observations show this can happen even near a supermassive…
Ringed worlds seem to be a fertile source of science fiction material, whether it be in sci-fi master Larry Niven’s circular alien constructs in his “Ringworld” novels, the spherical megastructures…
Two astronauts — including the first French woman in history to perform a spacewalk — worked outside of the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday (Aug 18), becoming temporary TV…
3 min read NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details This is an animated before-and-after view of the crater formed after a Falcon 9 upper stage…
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA’s next Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to imagine innovative new…
For decades, scientists have theorized that young protostar jets are shaped and driven by complex, twisted magnetic fields. But they couldn’t detect them. Now, thanks to ALMA, they’ve found them…
The seas have been kind, or at least kinder than expected, to SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, as it’s been tugged through the Indian Ocean to friendlier tides. Ship 40, the upper…
