A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just flew straight into the record books
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took its 24th flight on Wednesday, a record for the first-stage booster. Lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:13 a.m. ET,…
This pair of satellites is going to create an artificial solar eclipse
Early tomorrow morning will see the launch of an unusual European space mission, Proba-3, which will take off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. The launch is scheduled…
Watch Europe’s Vega-C rocket return to flight after two years
A European Vega-C rocket will launch tomorrow carrying the Sentinel-1C mission into orbit, in the first return to flight for the rocket since it failed in 2022. The European Space…
SpaceX’s recent Starship rocket test captured in space station video
Views of Starship Flight 6 from International Space Station NASA has shared a cool snippet of video captured from the International Space Station (ISS) showing SpaceX’s recent launch of the…
Check out astronaut’s stunning ‘science and art’ from the ISS
“So full of techno-cool and art-cool,” American astronaut Don Pettit wrote in a social media post describing his latest image from the International Space Station (ISS). The remarkable photo is…
Take a flight over Mars’ Ares Vallis in a new video from Mars Express
A new video shows what it would be like to cruise over the surface of Mars, zooming in to the planet from orbit and into a channel called the Ares…
Webb and Hubble snap the same object for two views of one galaxy
With all the excitement over the last few years for the shiny and new James Webb Space Telescope, it’s easy to forget about the grand old master of the space…
It lives! 47-year-old Voyager 1 is back in action
At 47 years old, the pair of Voyager probes are the oldest currently operational deep space mission, and in their time they have traveled all the way through our solar…
NASA’s Mars rover reveals what it’s grateful for this Thanksgiving
It’s not just people who are sharing what they’re grateful for during Thanksgiving today. Mars rovers are, too. In a post on X, NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars…
Life found on Ryugu asteroid sample, but it’s not as exciting as it sounds
Scientists examining a rock sample from outer space thought they’d hit the jackpot recently when they discovered that it was teeming with life. But they soon learned that the microbes…