Category: 2. Space

HELSINKI — China launched a third batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites Tuesday, advancing its ambitious low Earth orbit communications network to rival Starlink and other global systems.

A Long March 5B heavy lift rocket with a…

WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 successfully launched April 28 the long-delayed first set of operational Project Kuiper broadband satellites for Amazon.

An Atlas 5 551 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:01 p.m. Eastern on a…

Sometimes an unexpected turn in a carefully planned career path leads to surprising opportunities for growth and exciting new experiences. For Jason Phillips, that turn steered toward NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Phillips joined…

The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across.

These craters formed primarily during the Late Heavy Bombardment period about 4 billion years ago, when the inner…

WASHINGTON — A veteran NASA astronaut just back from the International Space Station believes the orbiting facility can operate well past its planned 2030 retirement date — and he wouldn’t mind another trip there.

Don Pettit returned…

HELSINKI — China is exploring establishing its first overseas launch site with a proposed equatorial spaceport in Malaysia, carrying strategic, economic, and geopolitical implications.

The China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC)…

A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development…

How are we made of star stuff?

Well, the important thing to understand about this question is that it’s not an analogy, it’s literally true.

The elements in our bodies, the elements that make up our bones,…

Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System, has not experienced full differentiation into a metallic core, silicate mantle and basaltic crust, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.