Space News

on 2021-07-28

Boeing’s Starliner CST-100 space capsule attached to the top of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket ahead of its second unmanned flight to the International Space Station later this week.

on 2021-07-28

The satellite, called “Monolith,” will lift off on an Electron rocket from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand, during a two-hour launch window that opens at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT).

on 2021-07-28

Here’s a guide to all the rocket launches and astronomical events in 2021, as well as milestones for space missions, anniversaries and conferences.

on 2021-07-27

The Space.com Forums are giving away a SpaceX Crew-3 prize pack to get ready for the planned Oct. 31, 2021 launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station.

on 2021-07-27

On Monday (July 26), astronauts said goodbye to a cornerstone of the International Space Station and captured stunning images of the compartment burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.

on 2021-07-27

Hot on the heels of its first crewed flight to suborbital space, Blue Origin reiterated that it wants a NASA moon lander contract — and stressed that it’s willing to put a lot of its own money into the effort.

on 2021-07-27

A fireball streaked across North Texas last night, leading to several hundred witness reports of a bright flash and sonic boom.

on 2021-07-27

SpaceX has retired its two rocket nose-cone-catching boats with their giant arms and nets.

on 2021-07-27

In the wisp-thin sky of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, astronomers have for the first time detected evidence of water vapor, a new study finds.

on 2021-07-27

Read live updates of Boeing’s second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on July 30.

on 2021-07-27

A German X-ray mission is mapping the distribution of black holes and neutron stars in the Universe, having discovered over two million such new objects in less than two years since its launch.

on 2021-07-27

Scientists believe the ultra-fast object landed in a densely-forested area near the capital, Oslo. It could take up to ten years to find.

on 2021-07-27

On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

on 2021-07-27

The hit-horror survival game is coming to next-gen.

on 2021-07-27

Until recently it was thought neutron star mergers were the only way heavy elements (heavier than zinc) could be produced.

on 2021-07-27

Earth is spherical, but what would happen if the Earth were flat? We explore some of the bizarre implications of a flat world which would make life as we know it virtually impossible.

on 2021-07-27

The Federal Aviation Administration has changed their qualifications for commercial astronaut wings, and Blue Origin’s first flight crew might no longer be eligible.

on 2021-07-26

Blue Origin made history on July 20, 2021 with the launch of its New Shepard rocket on its first crewed spaceflight. 

on 2021-07-26

The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

on 2021-07-26

A high-altitude balloon mission would investigate a controversial way to reduce global temperatures.

on 2021-07-26

The search for extraterrestrial technology is “daring to look through new telescopes.”

on 2021-07-26

An asteroid about as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza is tall made a “close” approach with Earth on Sunday (July 25), according to NASA calculations.

on 2021-07-26

Scientists have used computer models to predict the size of minuscule deformations, or mountains, on the surfaces of neutron stars, which are responsible for causing gravitational waves as they spin.

on 2021-07-26

For nearly 20 years, Russia’s Pirs docking compartment served as one of the primary ports for vehicles arriving and departing from the International Space Station.

on 2021-07-26

You may have heard about the “cosmology crisis:” Different methods of measuring the age of the universe are giving different results, and cosmologists have no idea why.

on 2021-07-26

Scientists worry that growing numbers of rocket flights and the arrival of space tourism could harm Earth’s atmosphere and contribute to climate change.

on 2021-07-25

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew its 10th flight on Saturday (July 24) to pass its first 1-mile marker.

on 2021-07-25

A meteorite found nestled in a horseshoe imprint in England was formed in the early days of the solar system and may contain the building blocks of life.

on 2021-07-25

A seismic image of central Louisiana reveals gigantic megaripple marks dating to the end of the dinosaur age.

on 2021-07-25

The billionaire’s flight has opened up a debate about what “astronauts’ and “space’ even are.