A new study gives potential insights into how the Red Planet's magnetic field, which protected its atmosphere, faded away.
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NASA space telescope spots most powerful light ever seen on Jupiter, helps solve 30-year-old mystery
NASA has detected the most energetic light ever seen on Jupiter and, in the process, solved a 30-year-old mystery.
Russia aims to rekindle moon program with lunar lander launch this July
Russia is ready to reactivate its moon exploration agenda, a former Soviet Union enterprise that ended decades ago, with the launch of the Luna 25 mission this summer.
The devil’s in the detail
Image: The devil’s in the detail
Musk foresees Florida as a home for Starship operations
Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, stands with a fully-stacked Starship launch vehicle in South Texas on Thursday night. Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX plans to transform parts of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to become an operational base for the company’s super-powerful Starship launcher, while keeping a sprawling complex in South Texas as a research and development location for the heavy-lift rocket program, Elon Musk said Thursday.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 11 – 19
The Winter Hexagon hosts the Moon. Then Castor and Pollux nail the Moon. Then the Little and Big Dog stars arc gracefully away from it. Meanwhile in early dawn, Mercury, Venus and Mars continue as a triangle low in the southeast.
Arcturus: Facts about the bright red giant star
Arcturus is a red giant that is one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky.
Earth from Space: Hereford, Texas
Hereford, and its surrounding colourful patchwork of agricultural fields, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.
ESA selects payloads for Ariane 6 first flight
ESA in close collaboration with ArianeGroup and Arianespace has selected payloads which best fit the profile of the first mission of its new generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
NASA to unveil 1st images from James Webb Space Telescope today. Here's where to find them.
NASA will unveil the first-ever images from the James Webb Space Telescope and you'll be able to see them as they debut online Friday (Feb. 11).
Elon Musk Takes the Long View in Glitzy Update on SpaceX’s Starship Super-Rocket
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk delivered a long-awaited, live-streamed update on his plans for launching the world’s most powerful rocket, with the spotlighted backdrop of a freshly stacked Starship and Super Heavy booster standing on the launch pad at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas.
SpaceX's Starship will reach orbit this year on road to Mars, Elon Musk says
Starship prototypes have taken just a handful of low-altitude hops off Earth's surface to date, but the vehicle is on target to earn its orbital wings soon.
Indian PSLV prepared for first launch in nearly a year
India’s EOS 4 radar imaging satellite is prepared for encapsulation inside the payload shroud of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. Credit: ISRO
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is preparing to soar into orbit Sunday with an Indian radar imaging satellite and two rideshare payloads, including one built in the United States in partnership with science institutes in India, Singapore, and Taiwan.
James Webb Space Telescope's groundbreaking optics explained by NASA
Webb's novel system will let the observatory peer deep into the universe's history.
Research satellites destroyed in Astra rocket failure
Astra’s Rocket 3.3 vehicle lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography
Four NASA-funded nanosatellites were lost Thursday when an Astra rocket tumbled out of control minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, the fourth time in five tries that the startup space company has failed to reach orbit.
4K Video: Astra launches from Cape Canaveral on a failed mission
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The History of Rockets
The principles of rockets go back thousands of years, but rockets have come quite a long way since ancient times.
OneWeb surpasses 400 satellites with Arianespace’s first launch of the year
A Soyuz ST-B rocket takes off from the Guiana Space Center on Thursday with 34 new OneWeb internet satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/P. Piron
A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off from French Guiana and hauled 34 new satellites into orbit for OneWeb’s internet network Thursday, bringing the tally of OneWeb spacecraft launched to 428 and marking the company’s fleet two-thirds complete.
'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Star Wars spinoff series premieres May 25 on Disney Plus
Disney's CEO delivers new details on when we'll see the Disney Plus series, "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
Could Astronauts Hibernate on Long Space Voyages?
A renewed era of space exploration is upon us, and many exciting missions will be headed to space in the coming years. These include crewed missions to the Moon and the creation of permanent bases there. Beyond the Earth-Moon system, there are multiple proposals for crewed missions to Mars and beyond. This presents significant challenges since a one-way transit to Mars can take six to nine months. Even with new propulsion technologies like nuclear rockets, it could still take more than three months to get to Mars.
