As New Horizons and its scientists prepare for the end of a solar conjunction in two days and the resumption of science data downlink from the craft of its historic flyby of 2014 MU69 on New Year’s Day, Alan Stern and his team are busy analyzing the first few datasets returned from the spacecraft before the solar conjunction began on 4 January.
It’s a contact binary, two different spherical rocks permanently touching each other and bound together…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made history once again, completing a daring mission encounter at…
United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket will try again on Thursday to launch the…
An Indian GSLV Mk.II rocket has launched the GSAT-7A spacecraft from the Second Launch Pad…
The boundaries of astronomical discovery keep getting pushed, especially in the 21st century with new…
Twenty-five years ago today, arguably the most important Space Shuttle mission of the 1990s landed…
In its first major scientific find, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has found water on asteroid Bennu.…
On December 3, 2018, after a journey that started on September 8, 2016, with a…
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched a PSLV rocket Thursday, carrying thirty-one payloads including the…
As another spacecraft prepares to land on Mars, the Dawn spacecraft recently ended its mission…
Following Saturday’s Northrop Grumman Innovation System’s (NGIS’s) Antares rocket launch with the NG-10 Cygnus, named…
Japan’s HTV-7 resupply spacecraft has bid farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday,…
With an Air Force development contract secured for the OmegA rocket, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems…
As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at…
China launched a cooperative mission with the French agency CNES when the CFOSAT oceanographic satellite was…
China launched a new satellite for ocean observation from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on…
Two flagship space telescopes are returning to their respective operations after they both entered safe…
Arianespace has conducted the opening part of the BepiColombo mission with the launch of the spacecraft…
United Launch Alliance’s workhorse Atlas V rocket launched an advanced communications satellite for the US…