Latest spacecraft News

Boeing Secures $2.8B Contract to Enhance U.S. Strategic SATCOM Capabilities
Boeing Delivers Next-Generation O3b mPOWER Satellites to SES
Cornell helps local company bring space docking tech to orbit
Meteorological Satellites Observe Temperatures On Venus
A strange bright burst in space baffled astronomers for more than a year. Now, they’ve solved the mystery
The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites – and how we may have finally found some
Is Mars really red? A physicist explains the planet’s reddish hue and why it looks different to some telescopes
Magnetic Field Of Sun In State Of Turmoil
SES’s O3b mPOWER System Receives Platinum Space Sustainability Rating
Laser Technique Revolutionizes Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Manufacturing for Space, Defense Applications
Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists
Spacecraft can ‘brake’ in space using drag − advancing craft agility, space safety and planetary missions
More than 50 years after trying to reach Venus, a failed Soviet spacecraft is about to return to Earth
How millions of people can watch the same video at the same time – a computer scientist explains the technology behind streaming
New rules for ground-based space infrastructure
‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life
‘World First’ Material To Revolutionise Aerospace
Sibley School hosts industry forum on AI design education
New UK system to protect satellites against attack shows how global conflict has spilled into outer space
Intelsat Completes Satellite Life-Extension Mission, Makes Space History
The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
Satellite Passes Ultimate Test
As the rescued astronauts return, space law is still in orbit over who’s responsible when missions go wrong
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes something a moon remains unclear
UniSQ tracks history-making re-entry of space capsule over South Australia
Indian Spacecraft Aditya-L1 Observes Solar Flare
What’s the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study the shape of the world and everything in it
Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
Flexible Crystals Reveal Secrets Of Elasticity
Crystals can’t bend – or can they? New research sheds light on elusive ‘flexible crystals’
Euclid Discovers Rare Einstein Ring
Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
Property and sovereignty in space − as countries and companies take to the stars, they could run into disputes
Only the Astronauts: book of space stories reveals secret lives of galactic junk
Pristine asteroid samples reveal secrets of the ancient solar system
Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon will need better boots − here’s why
This purple diamond could one day amplify signals from deep space
How does the International Space Station orbit Earth without burning up?
Supporting safe, secure, responsible use of space
NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
Solar Fire Up Close
How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths
Apophis: a new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that’s set to brush by Earth
How AI can help you make a computer game without knowing anything about coding
Scientists supporting mission to assess Europa’s habitability
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that’s home to countless space objects
Boeing-built X-37B Begins Advanced Space Maneuvering