Space

Renowned Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his team have stirred up excitement and skepticism alike with their recent claim of potentially recovering fragments from an interstellar visitor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Loeb, known…

In a disappointing turn of events for Launcher, a space tug named Orbiter SN3 spun out of control after being deployed during a SpaceX rideshare mission on June 12. The incident resulted in Launcher losing another one of its vehicles and…

A distant exoplanet, LP 890-9c, orbiting a red dwarf star 98 light-years away, may hold crucial insights into the transformation of habitable planets like Earth into inhospitable worlds akin to Venus. Recent research led by Lisa…

An Asteroid larger than ten buses aligned end-to-end is presently traversing interstellar space, with Earth as its next destination. According to NASA, the colossal space rock known as 2013 WV44 is predicted to have a close encounter…

NASA has embarked on an unprecedented mission by selecting four volunteers to live in a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston for the next 378 days. These individuals will experience challenges and…

Richard Branson's pioneering space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is making final preparations for its inaugural commercial spaceflight, scheduled to take place later this month.  With plans for two consecutive flights and a focus on…

The US military will hold a competition this August at the renowned DEFCON hacker convention in which rival teams of white-hat hackers will, for the first time ever, attempt to breach and seize control of computer systems on a satellite…

On Omelek Island in the Pacific Ocean, a former US military base, SpaceX launched their maiden rocket attempt there in 2006. Despite the craft's $7 million price tag, its rocket engines failed 30 seconds after liftoff, sending the chunk…