Meteorite impacts identified as driver of moon’s tenuous atmosphere
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON Reuters) – The NASA astronauts who became the first people to land on the moon’s surface in the 1960s and 1970s also discovered a previously unknown…
SpaceX in talks to land and recover Starship rocket off Australia’s coast
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – SpaceX is in talks with U.S. and Australian officials to land and recover one of its Starship rockets off Australia’s coast, a possible first…
Explainer video: how space telescopes work
Have you ever gazed at the night sky and wondered about the vastness beyond those twinkling stars? Space telescopes are our powerful tools that help unravel the mysteries of the…
NASA releases Webb telescope images of a galactic merger
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA released on Friday a pair of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing two galaxies – one nicknamed the Penguin and…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 grounded after failure dooms batch of Starlink satellites
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – SpaceX‘s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday after one broke apart in space and doomed…
NASA astronauts voice confidence that Boeing Starliner will bring them home
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first two astronauts to fly Boeing’s Starliner capsule said from the International Space Station on Wednesday they were confident in the spacecraft‘s ability…
Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket set for maiden flight after data glitch
By Tim Hepher and Joey Roulette PARIS (Reuters) – Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket was set to blast off for the first time on Tuesday, ending a year-long hiatus in the…
Rotten eggs chemical detected on Jupiter-like alien planet
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputation as a rather extreme place, a scorching hot gas giant a…
Private flights into space, the Italian government prepares the ‘Musk law’
Private flights into space: A bill to regulate private space expeditions is ready to be presented to the Council of Ministers. The measure, nicknamed the ‘Musk law’ in homage to…
NASA, Boeing push back Starliner’s crewed return to June 18
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA and Boeing said they expect to bring Starliner and its first astronaut crew back to Earth from the International Space Station as soon…