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Latest from Space.comby Leonard David3d ago
China's moon exploration program is readying an ambitious robotic mission, one composed of an orbiter, a lander, a rover, a hopper, and a wide range of international experiments including a...
Latest from Space.comby Mike Wall3d ago
We'll have to wait a bit longer for a highly anticipated Starship milestone, it appears. On Aug. 4, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said the company aimed to attempt the first-ever catch of...
Latest from Space.comby Charles Q. Choi3d ago
Microbes from Earth might survive the harsh surface of the moon, albeit in a state of suspended animation, a new study finds.
Latest from Space.comby Chelsea Gohd3d ago
LOS ANGELES – On a Saturday evening in Los Angeles, I found myself watching acclaimed actor Elizabeth Banks sing Tom Petty songs along with her fellow actors while writer/director David Wain played...
Latest from Space.comby Joe Rao3d ago
When the 11,000-ton cruise ship Le Boréal set sail from Nice, France, on Thursday, Aug. 6, its 205 passengers and 136 crew members began a voyage whose success would depend not only on careful...
Latest from Space.comby Richard Edwards4d ago
SPOILERS AHEAD! ANYONE YET TO WATCH "LEVEL-FIVE TRANSPORTER ACCIDENT" SHOULD PROCEED WITH CAUTION TO AVOID VIOLATING TEMPORAL PRIME DIRECTIVES.
Latest from Space.comby Josh Dinner4d ago
Europe's Mars Express orbiter has captured new, stunning imagery flying low over a geological region of the Red Planet shaped by ancient waterflow billions of years ago.
Latest from Space.comby Hanneke Weitering4d ago
On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of the two Voyager missions NASA launched that year.
Latest from Space.comby Chelsea Gohd4d ago
The "Eye of Africa" swirls across Mauritania in a hypnotizing snapshot captured from space. What is it?
Latest from Space.comby Robert Lea4d ago
Imagine looking at a vast city on Earth from a great distance, knowing nothing about that city; you may assume that its only buildings are the largest, most visible skyscrapers.
Latest from Space.comby Daisy Dobrijevic4d ago
The countdown is on for the deep partial lunar eclipse of Aug. 27-28. Over the next week, we'll be bringing you the latest eclipse news, viewing tips as well as live updates throughout eclipse...
Latest from Space.comby Anthony Wood4d ago
We're just one week away from a stunning partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28, when billions across North America, South America, Africa and Europe will see Earth's shadow dye the moon a subtle...
Latest from Space.comby Mike Wall4d ago
Rocket Lab launched a private Japanese satellite to orbit this morning (Aug. 20), adding to a growing constellation of Earth-observing spacecraft.
Latest from Space.comby Stefanie Waldek4d ago
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
Latest from Space.comby Josh Dinner4d ago
NASA is calling off the effort to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after a private rescue spacecraft couldn't overcome its own problems in orbit.
Latest from Space.comby Rahul Rao4d ago
If you have ever shared a room with multiple people for days on end, you may know how clothes and living conditions can rapidly turn rather smelly. Imagine that happening in a confined spacecraft.
Latest from Space.comby Jeff Spry4d ago
Despite our love for little "Baby Yoda", "The Mandalorian and Grogu" wasn't the thrilling "Star Wars" feature film to drag fans back to theaters when it dropped back in May.
Latest from Space.comby Robert Lea4d ago
Astronomers have discovered that a jet of plasma erupting from a distant supermassive black hole at near-light-speed is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter.
Latest from Space.comby Leonard David5d ago
NASA's veteran moon-circling spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has imaged the impact site of that errant Falcon 9 upper stage. The photos were taken on Aug. 11 and Aug.
Latest from Space.comby Brett Tingley5d ago
A mysterious incident over the southern Indian Ocean forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around due to an unnamed hazard in space. According to several New Zealand-based news outlets, a U.S.
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