China’s Chang’e 5 mission returned lunar rocks dated to 2 billion years old — 800 million years younger than anything Apollo brought back — which means the Moon was geologically active hundreds of millions of years later than every textbook had assumed, a
Space Technology 1 month ago
China’s Chang’e 5 mission returned lunar rocks dated to 2 billion years old — 800 million years younger than anything Apollo brought back — which means the Moon was geologically active hundreds of millions of years later than every textbook had assumed, a

On December 17, 2020, a small Chinese spacecraft called Chang’e 5 landed in the Pacific Ocean carrying approximately 1.731 kilograms of lunar material...

Source: Space Daily

Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in microgravity — meaning a six-month mission costs them as much bone mass as a postmenopausal woman loses in a year — and the countermeasures NASA developed to slow that loss are now b
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in microgravity — meaning a six-month mission costs them as much bone mass as a postmenopausal woman loses in a year — and the countermeasures NASA developed to slow that loss are now b

The human skeleton is, on every available physiological measurement, considerably more dynamic than the standard cultural framing tends to credit. The...

Source: Space Daily

Space Exploration 1 month ago
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 1: The Apology Begins

Years of grievance against dust. It ruins lungs, suits, rovers, and Mars missions. The first installment of an apology, sort of, to the most annoying ...

Source: Universe Today

An astronaut's view of Argentina's snow-capped mountains | Space photo of the day for May 20, 2026
Artemis Program 1 month ago
An astronaut's view of Argentina's snow-capped mountains | Space photo of the day for May 20, 2026

Earth is so beautiful from afar.

Source: Space.com

Space Technology 1 month ago
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The Starlink 10-31 mission will be the 58th Falcon 9 launch so far in 2026. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled dur...

Source: Spaceflight Now

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Starfighters turns Texas facility toward microgravity flight testing

Starfighters Space, which is developing F-104 supersonic jets for satellite air-launch, is turning its Texas facility into a staging ground for microg...

Source: SpaceNews

Artemis Program 1 month ago
Orbital Data Centers: Power and Thermal Management for Scalable Architectures

As orbital data centers move from concept to reality, scalable power generation and efficient thermal management are emerging&#1...

Source: SpaceNews

Artemis Missions 1 month ago
I Am Artemis: Tim Goddard

Listen to this audio excerpt from Tim Goddard, NASA open water lead: At the end of their mission around the Moon, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts were re...

Source: NASA

The Quiet Engineering Move That Could Define How a Cape Canaveral Air-Launch Operator Gets to Flight
Artemis Program 1 month ago
The Quiet Engineering Move That Could Define How a Cape Canaveral Air-Launch Operator Gets to Flight

Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Starfighters Space (NYSE American: FJET) just brought in a deep-bench engineering and integration partner...

Source: PRNewswire

Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight Test - Yahoo News UK

SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight TestYahoo News UK SpaceX's upgraded Starship V3 ready for debut launch ahead of ...

Source: Slashdot.org

Nikon’s telescopes to be installed on Axelspace’s next-generation Earth observation satellites GRUS-3
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
Nikon’s telescopes to be installed on Axelspace’s next-generation Earth observation satellites GRUS-3

Nikon’s custom telescopes will equip all seven of Axelspace’s next-generation GRUS-3 Earth observation microsatellites, scheduled for launch in 2026 o...

Source: Nikonrumors.com

Rocket Lab Sinks 9%, Planet Labs Tumbles 6%, Intuitive Machines Slides 5%: Space Rally Hits a Wall
Artemis Program 1 month ago
Rocket Lab Sinks 9%, Planet Labs Tumbles 6%, Intuitive Machines Slides 5%: Space Rally Hits a Wall

Pure-play commercial space stocks are getting hit hard at midday on Tuesday. Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) is down 9%, Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) is off 6%, and...

Source: 24/7 Wall St.

NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid
Comet & Asteroid News 1 month ago
NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some close-up pictures on t...

Source: Space.com

Space Technology 1 month ago
The cardinality wall: The hidden data bottleneck for LEO constellations

The satellite industry is entering an era defined by scale. Thousands of spacecraft are operating simultaneously in low Earth orbit (LEO), powering ev...

Source: SpaceNews

Astronomy Research 1 month ago
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae

An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. T...

Source: NASA

SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 stacked ahead of May 21 liftoff
Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 stacked ahead of May 21 liftoff

SpaceX is now targeting a Thursday, May 21, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket. See our latest updates here.

Source: Space.com

The Defense Industrial Base Is Ramping at a Generational Pace -- and a Florida Air-Launch Operator Just Built the Engineering Layer to Fit Into It
Artemis Program 1 month ago
The Defense Industrial Base Is Ramping at a Generational Pace -- and a Florida Air-Launch Operator Just Built the Engineering Layer to Fit Into It

Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Record backlogs, raised guidance, Department of War strategic investments in propulsion capacity, multi-y...

Source: PRNewswire

The Soviet Union landed a probe on Venus in 1970 that survived only 23 minutes before being crushed, but in those 23 minutes Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet, and the signal was so weak engine
Artemis Program 1 month ago
The Soviet Union landed a probe on Venus in 1970 that survived only 23 minutes before being crushed, but in those 23 minutes Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet, and the signal was so weak engine

On December 15, 1970, the Soviet probe Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet. The signal was...

Source: Space Daily

Astronomy Research 1 month ago
Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky

For most of human history, the sky was not something we studied — it was something we lived with. The post Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky appe...

Source: Sky & Telescope

How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket on May 21
Space Technology 1 month ago
How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket on May 21

SpaceX's new "V3" Starship megarocket will fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May 21), and you can watch the highly anticipated a...

Source: Space.com