James Webb Telescope Launch Scheduled for October 21, 2021
NASA has announced that the launch of its James Webb Space Telescope will be delayed. The delay is the latest for a program that...
NASA Are Preparing to Start in Fire Inside a Spacecraft
NASA is preparing to conduct its fourth Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire) aboard the SS Robert H. Lawrence.
In order to study how a...
Hubble Captures Cosmic Light Show as Comet ATLAS Disintegrates
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular cosmic event. The celebrated telescope observed comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) disintegrating approximately 146 million kilometers (91...
Researchers Observe Super-Heated Exoplanet Where it Rains Iron
Researchers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have observed a super-heated exoplanet where they suspect it rains liquid iron.
With the use of the...
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...
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YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast, has purchased space aboard the NASA-sponsored Astrobotic Technology mission to the Moon. The mission is slated to...
Biden Oval office features a Moon rock on loan from NASA
The day President Joe Biden was sworn into office, White House personnel were hard at work redecorating the Oval Office to the new occupant's...
SpaceX set new reusability benchmark with 8th booster reuse
The launch of the latest batch of 60 Starlink satellites on January 20 made use of the first Falcon 9 booster to be launched...
SLS core stage in good condition following anomalous static fire
NASA officials confirmed that the first SLS core stage had not suffered any damage following an anomalous static fire test that was automatically aborted...
SpaceX to repurpose offshore oil platforms for Starship launches
SpaceX appears to have purchased a pair of offshore oil platforms from a bankrupt offshore drilling contractor. The launch provider is expected to convert...