Rocket Lab launched a mystery satellite for a confidential commercial customer this evening (March 5). It was the company’s 83rd liftoff to date.
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This stunning satellite image of Ouarzazate, Morocco, was taken by Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
Vast has raised $500 million in new funding, which the California startup will put toward its goal of getting private space stations up and running in Earth orbit.
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Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful new Earth-based observatory’s data.
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Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological activity.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday (March 4), creating a sky show for early risers.
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Russia has fixed Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the only pad supporting the nation’s human spaceflight missions. It had been out of commission since late November.
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In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.
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NASA has repaired its Artemis 2 rocket, apparently keeping things on track for a possible April launch of the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years.
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Test your knowledge of Japan’s boldest leaps into the cosmos with a quiz that explores JAXA’s missions, milestones, and the science shaping humanity’s future among the stars.
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