File – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the Starlink 17-5 mission on Aug. 18, 2025. This was the ninth flight for Falcon 9 booster, tail number B1088. Image: SpaceX
SpaceX is set to launch its 500th Starlink satellite of the year during a flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday morning.
A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.
With launch planned for later this year, testing is well underway to ensure the MetOp Second Generation-B1 weather satellite is ready for its life in orbit around Earth. These checks include verifying that its spectacular four-panel, 11-metre-long, solar wing will deploy correctly.
President Trump lauded the Space Force in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night (Feb. 24) but did not mention the Artemis 2 moon mission, which could launch as soon as April 1.
Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the Red Planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the scientific community of Earth-based microbes hitching a ride on Mars-bound spacecraft, also called forward contamination. The concern is potentially mistaking Earth microbes for Mars life or Earth microbes potentially influence samples of Mars life we might find. While NASA is dedicated to mitigating it as much as possible, could new methods help determine how long Earth-based microbes could survive on Mars, this alleviating concerns for forward contamination?
The Sun regularly emits streams of charged particles (solar wind) from its upper atmosphere (the corona), which flow throughout the Solar System that interacts with Earth's magnetic field. This is what powers the beautiful aurorae visible in the Northern and Southern hemispheres (Aurora Borealis and Australis. It can also play havoc with modern technological systems, including telecommunications, GPS navigation, and electrical power grids. Since 2015, NASA's Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission has been collecting data on Earth's magnetosphere.
Young stars are known for their powerful radiation and strong winds. They can shape their gaseous surroundings, both promoting and inhibiting other stars from forming, depending on the circumstances. Their strong winds also have another effect: the stars inflate gaseous bubbles around themselves.
NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket off the launch pad on Wednesday (Feb. 25) to deal with a glitch, and you can watch the four-mile trek live.
Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, holds many fascinating and unique characteristics. Its proximity to the Sun gives it extreme conditions and unusual orbital mechanics.
The next video game set in The Expanse's sci-fi universe is a cutting-edge RPG with highly detailed third-person shooter action.
Supernovae explosions are hard to miss. When they explode, they can outshine all of the stars in their host galaxies for months. But understanding the physics behind these powerful phenomena requires studying their progenitors before they explode.
The observations offer a rare glimpse into our solar system's early history.
The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar cycle might be heading toward its quieter phase.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station prior to the flight of the Starlink 6-110 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is aiming to launch a Falcon 9 rocket late Tuesday afternoon with a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites onboard. The flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will be the company’s 18th launch of the year supporting its broadband internet satellite constellation.
The moon will rise with its right half lit tonight, creating dramatic shadows on the lunar surface.
Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta Astronautica from Anna Marie Brenna of the University of Waikato in New Zealand discusses a framework that she thinks might work to solve the legal challenges facing those who want to protect the space environment and those who want to exploit it.
An outline of what drone Obstacle Avoidance is, how it works and how to use it effectively for your drone flights.
The Lego Creator Space Exploration Telescope is a fantastic model, but the alternative builds of this 3-in-1 are a little disappointing.
Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.
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