Watch Live: NASA Reveals Its New Artemis Moon Suit
It’s been over 50 years since the final Apollo mission, but NASA’s ambitious Artemis program seeks to return humans to the lunar surface after that long absence. For that to happen,…
Watch Live: Relativity Space Re-Attempts Launch of First 3D-Printed Rocket
Terran 1 at the Cape Canaveral pad. Photo: Relativity Space After an aborted launch attempt on Wednesday, Relativity Space is now ready for a do-over. The three-hour launch window for…
After Surviving a Trip to the Moon, Manikins Helga and Zohar Are Back Home for Analysis
Helga and Zohar are back in Cologne after their trip to space.Photo: DLR NASA’s Artemis 1 mission may not have had real astronauts on board the Orion capsule, but there…
Orion’s Heat Shield Looked Wonky After Artemis 1 Moon Mission, NASA Says
NASA engineers inspecting Orion’s heat shield shortly after the Artemis 1 mission. Photo: NASA Orion set several records during the Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, in addition to surviving…
Watch Live as a Towering 3D-Printed Rocket Takes Flight for the First Time
Terran 1 on the launch pad. Photo: Relativity Space It’s one of the most anticipated launches of the year: the inaugural flight of a 3D-printed, methane-fueled rocket. We’ve got the…
Faulty Nozzle Cited as Cause of Vega-C Rocket Failure
Vega-C rocket launching from the Kourou space base, French Guiana on December 20, 2022. Photo: JM Guillon (AP) The European Space Agency (ESA) announced the results of a months long…
Hubble Telescope Releases Stunning Timelapse of DART Asteroid Impact
In September 2022, NASA deliberately crashed its DART spacecraft into a small asteroid some 6.8 million miles from Earth, in an attempt to redirect its trajectory as a test-run for…
Watch Live as SpaceX Launches a New Crew to the ISS
The SpaceX Falcon 9 during a routine static fire test performed on the morning of Friday, February 24, 2023.Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky Four astronauts—two from NASA and the others from Russia…
Giant Claw for Removing Space Junk Is Now One Step Closer to Reality
An artist’s impression of the ClearSpace-1 spacecraft approaching Vega Secondary Payload Adapter from ESA’s Vega launcher.Image: Clear Space ClearSpace, a Swiss space company, has secured clearance from the European Space…
NASA Images a Weirdly Long Asteroid
Six radar observations made of an asteroid swinging by our planet have revealed an unusually oblong space rock. The object is three times as long as it is wide—an irregular…