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Kate Duffy
SpaceX will launch top secret US spy satellites with the reusable Falcon Heavy rocket now that it's received Space Force approval, report says
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket, will launch spy satellites for a mission later this year, Bloomberg reported.
Rahul Verma
Here’s why Nasa scientists are sending microorganisms around the moon
The shoebox-sized satellite will carry microorganisms in the form of yeast. The probe will study yeast cell growth and metab...
Karuna Sharma
Simply put: Earth is spinning faster and here’s how it could impact your lives
The blue planet Earth usually takes 24 hours to rotate on its axis but not anymore. On July 29, Earth’s full spin was 1.50 m...
Kate Duffy
Scientists have developed a hi-tech sleeping bag that could stop astronauts' eyeballs from squashing in space
A study found the sleeping bag created a vacuum which sucked body fluids from the head towards the feet, the BBC reported.
India's first unmanned space mission scheduled for launch in 2022; Chandrayaan-3 moon mission in advanced stages of realisation
The first uncrewed space mission part of India's Rs 9,023 crore human space mission called 'Gaganyaan' is sla...
Shadab Rabbani
This Indian-American just got selected by NASA for its human space flight programme
Kate Duffy
Elon Musk says SpaceX is building a launch pad for Starship orbital flights on Florida's eastern coastline
Elon Musk said SpaceX's launch pad in Florida will have a better launch tower and ground systems than its facilities at Starbase in South Texas.
Marcia Sekhose
NASA backs Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and others with over $400 million funding to build commercial space stations
NASA has granted a total of $415.6 million to three companies including Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. These compan...
Marcia Sekhose
Scientists discover Mercury-like exoplanet where a year is only eight hours long
A new exoplanet ‘GJ 367 b’ has been discovered where a year amounts to only eight years. It’s believed to be a rocky planet ...
Jake Epstein,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Astronomers find 2 supermassive black holes — the nearest to Earth ever discovered — are merging into a 'monster'
Scientists said the pair of black holes is 89 million light-years away from Earth in the NGC 7727 galaxy.
Elon Musk asks SpaceX employees to work over the weekend as company faces "risk of bankruptcy"
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in an email to his company's employees asked them to work over the weekend on SpaceX's Raptor engine as...
Jake Epstein,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Elon Musk says Starlink satellites have had to dodge debris from Russia's anti-satellite missile test
Russia blasted one of its satellites with a missile on November 15, creating new debris in orbit and threatening Musk's network of SpaceX satellites.
It may have been the Sun that sent water to Earth
Scientists from Australia's Curtin University have shown how the Sun may have played an unexpected role in the formation of the "Blue Planet". The st...
Marcia Sekhose
ExoMiner, a new machine learning method helped discover 301 exoplanets
Scientists have discovered 301 new exoplanets with the help of a new deep neural network program. ExoMiner was trained and f...
Kate Duffy,Zahra Tayeb
A NASA astronaut who took part in the first all-female spacewalk describes what it was like wearing an oversized 1970s spacesuit in zero gravity
NASA astronaut Dr Jessica Meir told Insider that balancing and moving around in an oversized spacesuit in space was particularly difficult.
Shadab Rabbani
NASA’s planetary defence system: The mission that plans to defend earth from asteroids, comets
Shadab Rabbani
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to take another tourist flight to space: Here’s all you need to know
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's private space firm, is all set for its next flight in December with six guests. ...
Kate Duffy
Blue Origin discloses the 6 passengers for its next spaceflight, including 'Good Morning America' anchor Michael Strahan and the daughter of the first American to fly to space
Blue Origin has invited the "GMA" anchor Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the astronaut Alan Shepard, on its next flight.
SpaceX might launch its first Starship into orbit in January next year, says Elon Musk
SpaceX, run by tech billionaire Elon Musk, will try to fly a Starship into orbit for the first time early next year, if all ...
Marcia Sekhose
NASA is sending a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid — here’s why
In a few days, NASA will send its DART spacecraft into space to crash with an asteroid. The DART mission is a test by NASA to understand if crashing ...
Kate Duffy
NASA and SpaceX's plan to land humans on the moon could be delayed 'several years' after 2024, the space agency's watchdog says
SpaceX's Starship spaceship and NASA's new spacesuits still need to be developed and tested, per the Office of the Inspector General's report.
Shadab Rabbani
Researchers say Earth may soon have Saturn-like rings made of space debris
The amount of space debris has been on the rise over the past few decades. Space debris can harm orbital missions, spaceflig...
Marcia Sekhose
SpaceX Inspiration4 tourists share stunning photos of the earth
SpaceX Inspiration4 tourists share stunning photos of the earth...
Ryan Pickrell
US says Russia 'recklessly' destroyed a satellite with a missile, creating debris that could threaten the International Space Station
The test created 1,500 larger, trackable pieces of debris and hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces, the US State Department said.
Ryan Pickrell
A space junk threat forced the crew of the International Space Station to take shelter
The US military said it is aware of a "debris-generating event" but did not explain further what may have happened.
