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Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance (Image Credit: Mashable) Earth is a profoundly isolated rock. The European Space Agency’s Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set against the black ether of space. The two objects gradually shrink as Hera journeyed from […]
Sharp ‘lobster vision:’ China’s Einstein Probe space telescope already making discoveries during commissioning phase (Image Credit: Space.com) A Chinese X-ray space telescope has already made several discoveries during its initial commissioning phase. The Einstein Probe, featuring lobster-eye optics and European participation, launched on Jan. 9 aboard a Chinese Long March 2C rocket. The spacecraft has […]
SpaceX launched nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) tonight (Nov. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida today at 9:29 p.m. EST (0129 GMT on Tuesday, Nov. 5), kicking off SpaceX‘s 31st robotic resupply mission to the […]
The space station will receive a new shipment of supplies this morning (Nov. 5), and you can watch the event live. A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft laden with 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of food, equipment and experiments will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) today around 10:15 a.m. EST (1415 GMT), if all goes […]
Japan, Poland to join U.S. military satellite network (Image Credit: Space News) WASHINGTON — Japan and Poland are set to gain access to the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite network, marking a strategic expansion of the system that currently supports the United States and several other partner nations. Officials said […]
NASA’s 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth’s atmosphere (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA’s venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as expected on Friday (Nov. 1), the agency announced. NASA […]
How do you vote from space? NASA astronauts cast 2024 election ballots from ISS (Image Credit: Space.com) Election day in the United States is Tuesday, Nov. 4, and even American astronauts living in space are taking the time to fulfill their civic duty and cast their votes. There are four Americans currently aboard the Internationals […]
Space Force’s mysterious X-37B begins ‘aerobraking’ to lower orbit. Here’s how it works (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) ‘The U.S. military’s highly secretive X-37B space plane just got a little less mysterious. In a rare show of openness about the space plane’s operations, Boeing and the U.S. Space Force released a statement last month explaining that […]
India delays its 1st-ever Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2026 (Image Credit: Space.com) India plans to launch astronauts for the first time no sooner than 2026, roughly a year past the previously known timeline, following a series of uncrewed flight tests slated to begin in December. Speaking at an invited talk in New Delhi last week, […]
Scientists prepare for the most ambitious sky survey yet, anticipating new insight on dark matter and dark energy (Image Credit: Phys.org) Simulated images of the cosmos from the DC2 simulated sky survey conducted by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). DC2 simulated five years of image data as […]
