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Europe’s next planet-hunting spacecraft just spread its “wings” in preparation for launch. PLATO‘s twin solar panels, which will power the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars spacecraft’s search for Earth-like

The Star Wars logo is one of the most recognizable movie brands of all time. For fans of the best Lego Star Wars sets, Lego collectors, and Star Wars enthusiasts,

Humanity has a new tool in the fight against space junk — “Space Armor™,” a multi-functional composite that could protect both spacecraft and astronauts. Space Armor is made via a

Seen from space, western China’s Tarim Basin shows the importance of waterways. The image, taken by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) instrument on the Landsat-9 satellite, captures the geological and

Heads up aurora chasers! The northern lights may receive a boost tonight as Earth is forecast to be hit by the first of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs)

When considering some of the most recognizable Hollywood movie posters over the decades, no greater name comes to mind than artist Drew Struzan, so it is with great sadness that

Roscosmos Spacewalk 64 – YouTube Watch On Two cosmonauts will conduct a spacewalk today (Oct. 16), and you can watch the action live. Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy of the

SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket now has 130 liftoffs under its belt this year. A Falcon 9 topped with 28 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites launched from Cape Canaveral

Dark matter, one of the universe’s best kept secrets, may have been quietly painting the cosmos in faint, detectable hues of red and blue all along, a new study suggests.

Epic new video from this week’s Starship launch show’s the giant spacecraft’s final moments just before it splashed down in the Indian ocean. Starship lifted off on its eleventh test