The New Horizons team names point to three prominent features on the odd, binary world.
Space News & Blog Articles
Tune into the SpaceZE News Network to stay updated on industry news from around the world.
Germany switches off black hole telescope on Russian satellite, halts space cooperation
A space telescope making the largest ever map of black holes in the universe has been switched off after Germany decided to discontinue all science cooperation with Russia to protest against the invasion of Ukraine.
James Webb Space Telescope will help assess atmospheres of strange 'sub-Neptunes'
The sharp mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will finally be able to probe into the atmospheres of sub-Neptunes.
Aerial antenna for Venus mission test
Image: Aerial antenna for Venus mission test
Best space horror games
In space, no one can hear your scream... which is a relief for anyone playing any of these space horror games.
Meet Shackleton Crater: Moon Landing Site
Shackleton Crater Vitals Official name Shackleton Crater Location 89.90°S 0.00°E Diameter 21 kilometers (13 miles Depth 4 km (2.6 mi) Later this year, NASA plans to land a robotic drilling […]
Amateur Astronomers Team Up to Measure Distance to a Close-passing Asteroid
A small group of amateurs teamed up to measure the parallax, and thus the distance, to a near-Earth asteroid as it passed by our planet.
You can watch an asteroid zoom safely by Earth in a live webcast today
Online coverage starts Thursday (March 3) at 10 p.m. EST
Your name can fly around the moon on NASA's Artemis 1 mission
NASA is inviting people to put their names on a flash drive that will launch on the agency's Artemis 1 mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion capsule around the moon and back a few months from now.
SpaceX to launch 47 Starlink satellites, land rocket Thursday morning: Watch it live
SpaceX will launch 47 satellites and land the returning rocket on Thursday morning (March 3), and you can watch the action live.
Rocket crashing into the moon Friday: What to know
There's some dispute about what kind of rocket stage will strike the far side of the moon on March 4.
Physicists create bizarre quantum 'domain walls' in new experiment
Strange 'domain walls' act like independent quantum object in the new experiment.
OneWeb pulls employees out of Baikonur Cosmodrome after Russian demands: report
OneWeb told its staff to leave the Russian-run site on Wednesday (March 2), a company executive told SpaceNews.
Live coverage: SpaceX ready for another launch Thursday morning
A package of 47 more Starlink internet satellites is set for launch Thursday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX is scheduled to launch the satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:35 a.m. EST (1435 GMT).
The Expanding Debris Cloud From the Kilonova Tells the Story of What Happens When Neutron Stars Collide
When two neutron stars collide, it creates a kilonova. The event causes both gravitational waves and emissions of electromagnetic energy. In 2017 the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave observatories detected a merger of two neutron stars about 130 million light-years away in the galaxy NGC 4993. The merger is called GW170817, and it remains the only cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation.
SpaceX preps for another Starlink launch as internet terminals arrive in Ukraine
A Falcon 9 rocket stands on launch pad 39A Wednesday. Credit: Spaceflight Now
SpaceX wheeled a Falcon 9 rocket and 47 internet satellites to a launch pad Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center, ready to blast off Thursday to reinforce the Starlink constellation days after SpaceX expanded the network into Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of the country.
Scientists gearing up for rocket body's March 4 moon crash
A wayward rocket stage is poised to bombard the moon on Friday (March 4), and the coming impact has earned some scientific attention.
Ukrainians urge satellites to publicly share real-time images of the Russian invasion
On the morning of February 24th, after years of proxy conflict in the border region, Russia invaded the neighboring country of Ukraine. This invasion was the culmination of eight years of conflict that began with the removal of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (a long-time ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin) and Russia’s subsequent annexation of Crimea. This invasion has prompted the global community to mobilize and find ways to support Ukraine!
Russia issues ultimatum to UK government over OneWeb launch
The Soyuz rocket’s payload fairing containing OneWeb’s next 36 satellites. Credit: Roscosmos
Russia’s space agency said Wednesday it will not launch a batch of 36 OneWeb satellites this week unless the UK government gives up its stake in the satellite internet company, a prospect the UK business secretary later confirmed won’t happen.
How will Ukraine keep SpaceX's Starlink internet service online?
SpaceX's Starlink internet is now active in Ukraine. But how will they keep it online?
Russia-Ukraine War: Impacts on Space
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has far-reaching consequences for spaceflight and the international space community.
