ESA’s Juice mission launched last month on April 14, beginning its long journey to explore Jupiter’s icy moons, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. But soon after launch, mission controllers realized a 16-meter (52.5 ft)-long antenna for a radar instrument was jammed and couldn’t deploy. The Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna is mission critical, as it gathers data for the instrument that will be able to map beneath the ice at these moons.
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Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin honored as Air Force one-star, Space Force Guardian
Buzz Aldrin already had the moon to his credit. Now he has a star. The Apollo 11 astronaut and colonel in the U.S. Air Force received a promotion to the honorary rank of brigadier general.
The Grand Canyon Star Party
Get ready for the Grand Canyon Star Party on June 10–17, 2023.
The Matrix sequels at 20: Are they really that bad?
The Matrix "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" struggled to live up to the hype, but how do they look two decades later?
Star Trek Into Darkness: The sequel that took the Kelvinverse wildly off course
Ten years ago a promising franchise lost its way with a Wrath of Khan tribute act.
SpaceX hires former NASA human spaceflight chief Kathy Lueders: report
Kathy Lueders, who retired as NASA's human spaceflight chief at the end of April, will help SpaceX develop its giant new Starship deep-space transportation system.
New private plan to rescue Hubble Space Telescope may also target space junk
A second consortium has plans to possibly boost the Hubble Space Telescope and extend its science mission, after SpaceX raised the idea in 2022.
NASA is Getting Serious About Building and Assembling Future Missions… in Space
Most people involved in some product development have had a lousy supply chain experience at least once in their careers. It would be so much easier if all the parts needed to make your product were available nearby and didn’t take much effort to get to you. That is especially true if you happen to be making your product in space – one of the most significant hurdles to developing a fully-fledged space economy is the difficulty (i.e., cost) of getting those products into space.
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission is 'go' for May 21 launch
The four-person Ax-2 will launch at 5:37 p.m. ET on May 21 and arrive at the International Space Station about 16 hours later, if all goes according to plan.
NASA ditches giant 'superpressure' balloon into Pacific Ocean after anomaly
A NASA scientific balloon flight was terminated Sunday (May 14) after the craft developed an irreparable leak about a day and a half into flight.
Axiom Space Ax-2 private spaceflight with SpaceX: Live updates
Follow along with Axiom Space's Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station, the second-ever all-private mission to the orbital lab.
JUICE Jupiter probe spotted 1 million miles from Earth (video, image)
An Earth-based telescope spotted Europe's JUICE spacecraft as it zooms toward Jupiter to study the giant planet's mysterious, icy ocean moons.
What Cassini’s “Grand Finale” Taught Us About Saturn’s Interior
Six years ago the Cassini spacecraft, which had spent nearly two decades in orbit around Saturn, finished its mission with a grand finale, plunging itself into the depths of Saturn’s atmosphere. Those last few orbits and the final plunge revealed a wealth of information about Saturn’s interior. A team of astronomers have collected all of the available data and are now painting a portrait of the interior of the solar system’s second largest planet.
Stratolaunch's huge Roc plane drops hypersonic test vehicle for 1st time (video)
Stratolaunch's giant Roc airplane dropped a prototype of the company's Talon hypersonic vehicle in mid-air for the first time during a test flight on Saturday (May 13).
62 New Moons Found for Saturn
Jupiter is the King, Earth is teeming with life, Venus is a weird, spacecraft-crushing hellhole, and now Saturn has the most moons. Again.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers water around a mysterious comet
The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a rare main asteroid belt comet, discovering water around the object that could help reveal how Earth became a wet planet teeming with life.
ESA Wants Your Ideas for Living off the Land… on the Moon
Challenges have been a mainstay of space exploration for several years at this point. In the past, they have ranged from making a potential space elevator to designing a solar power system on the Moon. The European Space Agency is continuing that tradition and has recently released a new challenge focusing on lunar resources. Called the Identifying Challenges along the Lunar ISRU Value Chain campaign, this new ESA platform is the next step in the agency’s efforts to develop an entire “value chain” of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) technologies.
Two Super-Earths Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star at the Edge of the Habitable Zone
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, was designed to find other worlds. Following in the tradition of the Kepler spacecraft, TESS has a hundred thousand stars looking for small but regular dips in their brightness. These dips are typically caused by planets as they pass in front of the star. TESS has been quite effective, logging nearly 6,000 candidate exoplanets. Confirming or rejecting these candidates takes time, but it has led to some interesting discoveries.
Saturn's rings are much younger than we thought
Saturn's rings are surprisingly youthful and much younger than the gas giant planet itself, new research has revealed.
'Foundation' season 2 launches July 14 on Apple TV+. Watch the new teaser (video)
A thrilling new preview trailer for "Foundation" season 2 has just landed from Apple TV+ for its July 14 premiere.
