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…
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…
As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at…
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…
The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced…
The Japanese asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 – launched on December 3, 2014 aboard an H-IIA…
A new milestone for the future of United Launch Alliance’s rockets was conducted by Northrop…
The joint NASA / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS,…
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket has launched two British satellites into a 583…
After twenty-nine years of reliable service, United Launch Alliance’s veteran Delta II rocket made its…
When United Launch Alliance’s final Delta II rocket deploys NASA’s ICESat-II satellite on Saturday, the…
As the end of its launch campaign for the Iridium NEXT constellation nears, Iridium Communications…