The moon is constantly bombarded by cosmic radiation and there is no protection on the lunar surface from these potentially dangerous particles.
A small near-Earth space rock, Asteroid 2020 SW, will zoom past Earth on Thursday 24 September 2020.
Blue Origin’s NS-13 mission will fly 12 customer payloads to space on the New Shepard rocket, including a payload for NASA. Watch the live stream here.
On 22 September 2020, the International Space Station (ISS) did an emergency manoeuvre away from fast-moving orbiting space junk.
Researchers believe that they have uncovered the key to building a habitat on Mars.
Scientists have confirmed that the sun is officially nine months into a new solar weather cycle.
SpaceX is planning to launch its 12th batch of Starlink satellites on Thursday 17 September. Here’s what you need to know.
The discovery of a rare molecule called phosphine was found in the clouds of Venus.
SpaceX recently flew Starship prototype SN6 to an altitude of 150 meters. Elon Musk now confirmed progress with Starship SN8.
They are expected to reach their destination sometime in February, 2021.
South African space sector set to grow with new Space Infrastructure Hub.
SpaceX will launch the next batch of Starlink satellites on Wednesday, 3 September, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Watch the live stream here.
September’s full moon – the Harvest Moon – will be the last winter moon of 2020. It also sets the stage for a Blue Moon in October.
A recent theory posits that our Sun may have started its life with a binary companion. But what happened to the second Sun, and what does it mean for the Oort Cloud?
A massive Near-Earth-Object (NEO) the size of a plane passed by Earth. Here’s what we know about Asteroid 2011 ES4.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch of the SAOCOM 1B mission will carry the SAOCOM 1B spacecraft to orbit in addition to two rideshare payloads, Tyvak-0172 and PlanetiQ’s GNOMES-1. Watch it here.
So far so good for the Arab world’s first ambitious effort to reach the Red Planet and undertake groundbreaking research.
The NROL-44 satellite will be launched on a Delta IV Heavy rocket, one of the most powerful rockets in the world.
The Hubble Space Telescope explores the universe 24 hours a day. That means it has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder even on your birthday.
The last time Cape Canaveral planned three space launches in one week, was in 2001 when a Titan 4 launched on 6 August, followed by a Delta 2 on 8 August and the NASA Space Shuttle on 10 August.
It’s a first for Falcon 9! Watch SpaceX’s Starlink mission launch here.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will carry 58 Starlink satellites and three SkySat Earth-imaging satellites for Planet Labs into low-Earth orbit on Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Here’s what new observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found about the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse.
The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year between in July and August as Earth moves through the debris left over from Comet Swift-Tuttle.
The Perseid meteor shower – or just Perseids for short – is active between 17 July and 24 August every year, with the peak event taking place on Wednesday evening, 12 August 2020.