‘A great relief!’ Europe’s Proba-3 solar-eclipse satellite phones home after a month of silence
One of the two spacecraft that make up Europe's Proba-3 solar-eclipse mission just reestablished contact with its handlers after being ...
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Earthshine will reveal the moon’s hidden face tonight— here’s how to see it
Catch the soft glow of earthshine as a young crescent moon appears low after sunset.
Private South Korean rocket exploded last December due to hardware failure, investigation finds
The South Korean startup Innospace failed during its first orbital launch attempt, which sent five satellites aloft on Dec. 22 ...
Lego’s first-ever Tintin set is coming next month and it’s a space-themed Lego Tintin Moon rocket
If you're a fan of Lego, rockets or Tintin, (I am), you'll want the new Tintin Moon Rocket set, featuring ...
I talked to Andy Weir about the astrobiology behind ‘Project Hail Mary’
The new film probes the possibility of alien life – here's how the science of Project Hail Mary stacks up.
NASA peers inside an asteroid | Space photo of the day for March 19, 2026
NASA has used advanced imaging techniques to peer inside samples of asteroid Bennu, discovering extensive networks of cracks running throughout ...
Explosive daytime fireball may have dropped meteorites on Ohio — here’s where to look and what to do if you find one
The rare meteor exploded with the force of 250 tons of TNT.
Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese ‘Strix’ satellite to orbit on March 20
Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective on Friday (March 20), and you can ...
Watch NASA roll out Artemis 2 moon rocket tonight ahead of April 1 launch
NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on Thursday (March 19) ahead of a ...
‘At the edge of what we thought possible’: Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe
"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.