
A New Private Moon Race Kicks Off Soon
Commercial spacecraft are vying to land on the lunar surface, but can they jump-start a new space economy?
Commercial spacecraft are vying to land on the lunar surface, but can they jump-start a new space economy?
Long considered trivial, the effects of rocket launches and reentering space debris on global warming and ozone loss could soon become too large to ignore
The announcement comes as NASA and Roscosmos are laying plans to transition to other orbital habitats
Astronomers and the public alike are delighting in the glittering depths of the universe revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope
The suits, supplied by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, will be used in NASA’s upcoming Artemis lunar missions and will protect space travellers from micrometeoroids, moon dust and even vomit...
The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost
Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research
The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments
Rolling up an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater, the rover starts crucial rock sampling.
SpaceX and other companies are still struggling to make their satellites darker in the night sky
NASA’s three-and-a-half-year mission to collect seismic data from Mars is running out of juice
The Starliner team is confident the malfunctions won’t prevent the spacecraft from completing its mission
Flying to space takes its toll on the human body, and this has spurred new research on radiation and microgravity, as well as advances in remote medicine and telehealth, all of which have potential benefits for people on Earth...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended hopes of launching the ExoMars rover in 2022. Now the mission may never lift off at all
The uncrewed flight includes a payload of food, provisions and a specialized flight-test dummy
The two countries must put aside their mistrust in order to establish rules for the peaceful use of outer space
Ground stations are currently tracking 16 fragments associated with the event, which occurred on April 15
To propel itself higher than any known engineered jumper or animal can, it had to ignore the limits of biology
Russia will move forward with lunar exploration without its European partners
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