NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captured a 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama of Mars
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has released a 1.8-billion-pixel panoramic image of the surface of Mars. The image was captured by the agency’s Curiosity rover...
NASA Awards $170 Million Psyche Launch Contact to SpaceX
NASA has selected the SpaceX Falcon Heavy to carry the agency’s Psyche mission. The mission will explore an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars...
NASA Discovers Moons Orbiting Neptune Locked in an Orbital Ballet
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have discovered two small moons around Neptune perform a “dance of avoidance” as they orbit the planet.
Naiad...
InSight Lander’s “Mole” Probe Resumes Drilling into Martian Surface
NASA has revealed that the Mars InSight lander’s Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package probe is once again operational. The probe is designed to...
Italian Air Force Award Research Flight Contract to Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic has secured a contract with the Italian Air Force to support a “human tended” research flight aboard the company’s SpaceShipTwo spaceplane.
The flight...
NASA Celebrate the Discovery of the 4,000th Exoplanet
NASA has revealed that it surpassed 4,000 identified exoplanets in June. To celebrate, the agency has created a video that tracks the agency’s progress...
NASA Selects 12 Payloads to Launch Aboard Commercial Lunar Landers
NASA has selected 12 science and technology payloads that will launch aboard commercial lunar landers as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)...
NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock will Pave the Way for Interplanetary Travel
NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is set to be launched aboard a Falcon Heavy later this month. The GPS-like instrument will allow spacecraft to...
UNOOSA Select 9 Experiments to be Conducted Aboard China Space Station
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has selected nine international experiments to be conducted...
Meteoroid Strikes Reveal Water Beneath the Lunar Surface
NASA has revealed that by observing meteoroid strikes, researchers have discovered new concentrations of water on the lunar surface.
Using data collected from the Lunar...
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China Launch Gaofen and Skywalker Satellites Aboard Long March 2D
China launched a pair of satellites aboard a Long March 2D over the weekend. The launch was one of a pair conducted by China...
US Space Force Deploy Subsatellite from Classified X-37B Spaceplane
As the world was transfixed on the first crewed launch from US soil in nearly a decade, the country’s Space Force quietly deployed a...
NASA SpaceX Demo-2 Crew Welcomed by Space Station Crew
The crew of the NASA SpaceX Demo-2 mission has arrived at the International Space Station safely.
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley launched...
SpaceX Launch First NASA Astronauts From US Soil in Almost a Decade
NASA and SpaceX have successfully launched the first crewed mission from American soil carrying American astronauts since the retirement of the space shuttle.
The...
SpaceX Have Deorbited Two More Starlink Satellites
SpaceX has deorbited an additional two Starlink satellites following what appeared to be a coordinated rapid orbit lowering prior to reentry.
The two satellites were...