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Inside the 'awkward,' 'tense,' and 'heated' private meeting between Elon Musk...
Elon Musk shared new details about SpaceX's planned Mars-capable crewed launch system, called Starship, on September 28.SpaceX is developing and launching Starship prototypes next to Boca Chica...
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A new radar system will track 250,000 tiny pieces of space junk. It may help...
A new radar array in New Zealand will track an estimated 250,000 tiny objects that orbit Earth at high speeds and could threaten satellites and astronauts.It will be the first commercial system to...
View ArticleThe mysterious case of NASA's missing $1.1 billion moon lander
In the 1960s, NASA commissioned Grumman Aircraft to build 15 space-worthy lunar modules, or LMs, for its Apollo program. The fate of 14 modules is well-documented, but the last — LM-14 — is harder to...
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NASA isn't sure what happened to one of its last Apollo moon landers. The...
NASA ordered 15 space-grade moon ships for its Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s.Ten of those vehicles, known as lunar modules, or LMs, launched into space. Astronauts landed six of them on the...
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NASA's first all-female spacewalk is finally happening on Thursday or Friday...
NASA's first all-female spacewalk is slated to happen on Thursday or Friday morning.Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will spend hours outside the International Space Station replacing a...
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NASA's Hubble space telescope just took incredible photos of a visiting comet...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a clear photo of the second interstellar visitor ever detected in our solar system.The comet, called 2I/Borisov, came from an unknown star system. It's...
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45 unreal photos and renderings show how companies are building a space...
It's hard to impress Instagram followers. They seem to have seen it all, including every inch of the planet's surface — every mountain's summit, every crystal clear hot spring, every picture-perfect...
View Article8 weird robots NASA wants to send to space
NASA is developing a bunch of robots it wants to send to space.Some are humanoid like the RoboSimian and Robonaut 2, but other bots, like the Ice Worm and Astrobee, are more abstract.Arguably the most...
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SpaceX may want to launch 42,000 internet satellites — about 5 times more...
SpaceX wants to surround Earth with a fleet of internet satellites called Starlink. Original plans called for launching nearly 12,000 satellites over the next 8 years or so.However, Space News reports...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX has a plan to deploy up to 30,000 new satellites — and...
Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has plans to launch 30,000 more Starlink internet satellites — and Morgan Stanley says the initiative could cost as much as $60 billion. The bank's analysis assumes a cost...
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A crushing cost estimate of SpaceX's planned mega-fleet of 42,000 Starlink...
SpaceX wants to surround Earth with a vast network of internet-providing satellites called Starlink.Financial analysts at Morgan Stanley Research estimated the project could grow SpaceX's base...
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2 female astronauts politely corrected Trump midspacewalk after the president...
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir conducted the first all-female spacewalk on Friday. They paused to take a phone call from President Donald Trump.Trump incorrectly said their spacewalk was "the first...
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The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week. Here's how to see the shooting...
The Orionids meteor shower peaks on Monday, October 21 and Tuesday, October 22. On those nights, shooting stars will streak across the sky, up to 20 per hour, between midnight and dawn in both the...
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The coolest photos of the solar system taken in the decade you were born
NASA spacecraft and telescopes have captured stunning photos of the solar systemfor decades. The first image taken in space came from a rocket camera in 1946. Before that, astronomers took...
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Astronomers accidentally discovered an invisible 'monster galaxy' from the...
Astronomers have accidentally discovered a new, invisible "monster galaxy" from the beginning of the universe.They found it by detecting the warm glow of dust clouds heated by the formation of new...
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NASA is sending a new moon rover to sample water ice on the lunar south pole
NASA is sending a new rover to the moon's south pole. If successful, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) would be first spacecraft to ever land there without crashing.The rover...
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The universe is expanding faster than scientists thought, a study confirms —...
The universe is expanding faster than scientists predicted, a finding that has created what one astrophysicist calls "the crisis in cosmology."A new study confirmed this dilemma using new telescope...
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NASA just released a photo of the sun that looks like the face of a fiery...
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released a photo of the sun that looks like the fact of a giant, fiery pumpkin.The ultraviolet image was taken in October 2014, but released on NASA's Facebook and...
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft beamed back unprecedented data from interstellar...
NASA's Voyager 2 probe beamed back unprecedented data as it crossed into interstellar space nearly a year ago. Scientists just released their findings.The data suggests the presence of previously...
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The universe may be a closed sphere and not a flat plane, a new study says....
The universe might be curved and closed like an inflating sphere, rather than a flat plane, a new study suggests. The study found that gravity bends the path of the oldest light in the universe—...
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