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The launch, originally planned for today from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was scrubbed less than an hour before liftoff due to a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm on the rocket
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The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments
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Hours after the landing, Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus said there was conflicting data about how Athena landed and whether it was on its side
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Sunita Williams has told Elon Musk during a recent call to dump the International Space Station in two years, rather than waiting until NASA’s projected de-orbit in 2031
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The SpaceX's countdown got down to the 40-second mark, but it was halted because of issues with the 403-foot (123-metre) rocket, the world's largest and most powerful
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A private company has launched a lunar lander aiming to get closer to the moon's south pole with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that never sees the sun
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Scientists worldwide had dubbed asteroid YR 4 as a ‘city killer’ due to its estimated size that ranged between 40 meters and 90 meters.
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Williams and Wilmore have been stuck in space since June last year due to technical problems with Boeing's Starliner which took them to ISS
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For the first time, scientists worldwide may need to seriously explore a deflection strategy to counter the threat of asteroid YR4, which, according to NASA, now carries a 2.3 percent chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032.
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It was the 18th month of the last 19 that the world hit or passed the internationally agreed upon warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times
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The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start
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The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
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The Firefly constellation satellites were integrated via Exolaunch and launched aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX. The launch took place around 1 am
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Jeff Bezos’ space company had called off debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing
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Training includes familiarisation sessions with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and various onboard systems of the International Space Station
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The astronauts shared that NASA has provided them with food items like butternut squash, apples, sardines, and smoked turkey for the occasion
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Earth is parting ways with an asteroid that has been a "mini moon" for two months. The space rock will detach on Monday, pulled away by the sun's gravity, but will return in January.
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Red hydrogen gas bubbles, energized by radiation from newly formed stars, add to the galaxy’s visual splendor. Near the galactic core, intensely hot young stars within a gas disk emit powerful X-rays. At the very center, an active galactic nucleus, fueled by a supermassive black hole, produces even stronger X-rays, classifying NGC 1672 as a Seyfert galaxy.
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The Europa Clipper mission was scheduled to launch on October 10 from NASA Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida, aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, to conduct an in-depth investigation of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. However, with Hurricane Milton approaching the storm-battered Gulf Coast, a state of emergency has been declared in parts of Florida, causing a delay in the mission.
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The sun’s magnetic field is currently at the peak of its 11-year cycle, making solar storms and northern lights more frequent.