The planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun this week in a rare event known as ‘Mercury transit’. The next transit will only take place in 2032.
SpaceX has regulatory approval to launch nearly 12 000 Starlink relay stations. The company is launching the next 60 satellites today.
November’s Taurid meteor shower – which peaks between 5 and 7 November 2019 – is known as the most long-lasting meteor shower of the year.
While Juno is snapping stunning shots of Jupiter, it is also working hard to remain optimally functional in orbit, and will ‘jump’ the planet’s shadow on 3 November.
NASA’s VIPER moon rover and Artemis program begins a new era where robots and humans working together will push the boundaries of what’s possible in space exploration.
Elon Musk took to social media and tweeted via SpaceX’s satellite constellation Starlink for the first time. And it worked!
Are we alone in the universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection, or an improbable fluke.
In answer to the White House call to accelerate their planned return to the moon, Blue Origin has teamed up with three legacy space companies.
October’s Orionid meteor shower is often described as one of the “most reliable annual displays of shooting stars”.
Drone footage captured by John Winkopp shows the first stainless steel bands of the Starship Mk4 being assembled at SpaceX’s Florida facility.
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will take a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station to replace a battery charge/discharge unit.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX seeks approval to add up to 30 000 more satellites to its Starlink broadband network, on top of 12 000 spacecraft already authorised by US regulators.
October’s full Harvest Moon will be visible from Sunday 13 October to Tuesday 15 October.
Elon Musk shares a peek inside the famed Starship prototype, days after delivering a presentation in front of the newly-assembled spacecraft.
NASA opened for business on 1 October 1958, two months after its creation by the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
Catching such a rare event in action will help astronomers understand the physics of a black hole.
In the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is being shut down and astronomers want to know why.
It’s been two months since SpaceX and the Planetary Society collaborated to launch a crowdfunded solar sail into Earth’s orbit.
SpaceX Chief Engineer and CEO Elon Musk will provide an update on the design and development of Starship at 2:00 SAST on Sunday, 29 September 2019.
The unpiloted cargo ship is set for liftoff at 18:05 SAST from the Tanegashima Space Center, a spaceport carved from rocky outcrops in Japan, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX’s next Starship prototype is taking shape. If all goes according to plan, the craft will fly by October.
The International Space Station (ISS) is the biggest human-made thing in space and the third-brightest object in the sky.
India attempted to make history by becoming just the fourth nation to successfully land a probe on the Moon.
September’s full moon – the Harvest Moon – will be the smallest moon in 2019. It also falls on unlucky Friday the 13th.
Dark matter, by its very nature, is unseen. We cannot observe it with telescopes, and nor have particle physicists had any luck detecting it via experiments.