February’s snow moon is controversial: while some researchers consider it to a be supermoon, others disagree. Here’s why.
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster is the only production car in space. If it’s still out there, it’s currently in its second orbit the Sun.
During the cosmic stellar fight, a red giant star engulfed its smaller binary companion star. The outcome was a peculiar but mesmerising gas cloud bursting with colour.
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing the Solar Orbiter for launch. It will snap the first-ever photos of the Sun’s poles.
SpaceX has regulatory approval to launch Starlink relay stations into low Earth orbit. The next 60 satellites will be launched on Wednesday 29 January.
SpaceX was set to launch the next constellation of Starlink satellites on Friday 24 January 2020 as part of Musk’s plan to provide a global broadband Internet network. Here’s why the mission was postponed.
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world’s largest single-dish telescope; it is situated in China’s Guizhou Province.
The Falcon 9 booster used in the test, known as B1046, has flown three times. Its fourth flight during the Crew Dragon in-flight abort test was its last. RIP Falcon 9.
SpaceX’s test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft was initially scheduled for 18 December but was postponed mere hours before lift-off. Here’s why.
It’s going to be a busy weekend for SpaceX as it prepares the Crew Dragon’s final test before it will be used to transport astronauts. Here’s what you need to know.
NASA shared a photo of a vibrant collection of stars known as the Snowflake cluster. Here’s why it’s also called the ‘Christmas Tree’ star cluster.
Astronomers at the University of Colorado discovered the ‘super-puff- worlds of the Kepler 51 star system: lightweight planets that weigh about the same as cotton candy.
Ethiopia launched its first satellite into space from a Chinese space station to advance their footprint in scientific innovation.
Boeing will make history this week when it sends its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time. Here’s what you need to know.
December’s Geminid meteor shower is associated with the potentially hazardous Asteroid 3200 Phaethon. The Geminids will be the last meteor shower of the decade.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched its 12th crewless tests of the New Shepard rocket earlier this week. See the spectacular photos here.
NASA’s newest mission to Mars will be focused on trying to find proof that life once inhabited the red planet. Here’s what you need to know about NASA’s Mars rover.
December’s full Cold Moon was the last full moon of the decade. Here’s what you need to know.
SpaceX and NASA will use the Falcon 9 rocket to send thousands of kilograms of crew supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).
When the Earth passes through the alpha Monocerotids meteor stream on 21 and 22 November, we could witness a meteor storm.
NASA has recruited SpaceX’s Starship, Blue Origin’s Blue Moon and three other commercial lunar lander ideas to join its Artemis moon program.
November’s Leonid meteor shower is associated with the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which passes by Earth every 33 years.
No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun replaced Earth at the centre of the solar system.
The icy space rock formerly known as Ultima Thule was renamed to Arrokoth to escape the Nazi link.
November’s full Beaver Moon will shine bright on Tuesday 12 November in the constellation Aries.