The CMS-03 satellite is an upgraded version of the rocket that launched India’s unmanned craft that landed on the Moon in August 2023. India launched its heaviest ever communication satellite on…
Category: Space
What’s happening on the International Space Station while the government is shut down?
Although the U.S. government is shut down, NASA’s astronauts in space are still expected to show up for work every day. As the shutdown continues into its second month, many…
How to spot November’s supermoon, the closest of the year
A bird flies in front of the Harvest Supermoon in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night…
PBS celebrates 25 years of the ISS with NOVA’s ‘Operation Space Station’ on Nov. 5
Celebrating the lasting legacy of our planet’s off-world laboratory since it was first inserted into orbit in 2000, NOVA presents a two-part exploration of the venerable International Space Station with…
China’s Shenzhou 21 docks with space station, sets the country’s own speed record
China’s Long March 2F rocket, carrying three astronauts for the Shenzhou 21 manned space mission, blasts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwestern China, Friday, Oct. 31,…
NASA rejects Kardashian’s claim Moon landing ‘didn’t happen’
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA hit back on Thursday at reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 moon landing “didn’t happen,” a theory consistently debunked over decades. “Yes,…
‘Ghost particles’ can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery
Imagine a particle so ghostly that over 100 trillion of them could pass through you every single second without you noticing anything at all. Spooky, right? Well, believe it or…
We’re putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That’s not good.
Reentry of the Jules Verne spacecraft showing it breaking apart. Credit: NASA/ESA/Bill Moede and Jesse Carpenter We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the…
Europe is working to develop reusable rockets by the early 2030s
Europe’s ArianeGroup is set to fly a series of demonstrators in a bid to develop sovereign reusable launch capabilities. “Callisto, Themis and Skyhopper are different demonstration programs contributing to the…
What made the moon?
Credit: NASA Our moon—or la Luna—has inspired humankind for millennia. It’s largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten…
