Smile! A spacecraft just caught you — and everyone else on our planet — on camera while snapping a selfie. China’s Tianwen 2 spacecraft took a picture of itself, as
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Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race to be the first to send various objects up
The Expedition 73 crew continued their science research and maintenance work aboard the International Space Station this week, despite the start of a U.S. government shutdown back on Earth. Orbital
Every new space mission runs into the same wall: physics and fragility. Physics, because the speed of light and contested spectrum make real-time decision-making from the ground impossible when you
iss070e014729 (Oct. 29, 2023) — Orbital nighttime peeks through the International Space Station’s cupola, or “window to the world,” nearly 270 miles above the Indian Ocean. In the right window,
Astronomers have captured a stunning image of a tail growing on interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS. The image was captured on Aug. 27, 2025, by a team of scientists and students
PARIS — A Cygnus cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Sept. 19 after a one-day delay caused by a thruster issue. The station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm grappled the
View larger. | AI combed Hubble’s archive, revealing – among hundreds of other discoveries – these 6 previously undiscovered, weird, and fascinating astrophysical objects. Of these 6, 3 are lenses
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX is preparing for its 13th and
The Uranus occultation of 1995 Sept 9 from SAAO. Here we plot the immersion in normalized stellar flux vs. distance in the shadow plane, relative to half light and scaled
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