Venus Day Length: Experts Say Earth's Sibling Rotates Every 20 Minutes

SPACE 05.06.2021 05:10 AM

One Venusian day is equivalent to 243.0226 Earth days – roughly two-thirds of one Earth year – and it changes with a variation of about 20 minutes.

Blue Origin: Jeff Bezos to Auction off First Space Tourism Flight Aboard New Shepard for July

05.05.2021 23:34 PM

Blue Origin said it started taking sealed bids on Wednesday for a seat on its July launch. The auction will shift to public online bidding on May 19.

SpaceX Starship SN15 Lands Successfully After More Than 11 Tries

05.05.2021 21:36 PM

SpaceX Starship SN15 test on Wednesday marks the first time it successfully launched and landed, SpaceX's Starship Serial Number 15 rocket has successfully launched and landed, making it the first and only prototype to survive a high-altitude flight test.

Tianwen-1 Mission: China Reveals Attempt to Land on Mars Through Zhurong Rover

05.05.2021 06:30 AM

After NASA's recent Red Planning landing, China's Tianwen-1 is next in line and the space agency recently shared how it will attempt to touch down on Mars.

Scientists Spend 6,000 Hours in Searching for Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars

05.05.2021 00:42 AM

Scientists continue to wait for that much-awaited next gravitational waves from neutron stars, as they spend about 6,000 hours in their research.

NASA Joins Star Wars Day Celebration in Space: Lightsaber, Real Death Star, Tatooine and More

05.04.2021 23:50 PM

On Star Wars Day, we collected all the occasions when NASA gave the franchise nods by discovering similar planets and bringing characters like Baby Yoda into space.

Chinese Large Modular Space Station Update: Out-of-Control Rocket Could Reenter Atmosphere on May 8

05.04.2021 22:17 PM

China's Long March 5B rocket's core stage is set to make an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere in the next few days.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Adds 60 More Starlink Satellites; Elon Musk Says There Are 500,000 Service Pre-Orders

05.04.2021 21:08 PM

SpaceX's Star Wars Day launch puts 60 Starlink satellites in orbit and successfully lands rocket. Here's what Elon Musk said.

SpaceX SN15 Starship: Will It Push Through Its Test Launch This Tuesday?

05.04.2021 04:42 AM

SpaceX aims to launch SN15 Mars rocket prototype Tuesday or Wednesday this week. The next Starship test, scheduled to launch from SpaceX's Starbase facility in Texas on Friday, has been canceled.

NASA SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts to Meet Media Online After Historic Mission

05.04.2021 01:11 AM

NASA announced that the SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, Soichi Noguchi, will be available to answer questions about their historic mission in a virtual event on Thursday.

Rocket Debris From China's Space Station Could Land in a Metropolitan City; Should We Worry?

05.03.2021 22:44 PM

The Long March 5B rocket's core stage could fall from space any time soon. Should we worry about where it would land?

NASA Parker Solar Probe: Is It the Fastest Object Ever Built To Get Near the Sun?

05.03.2021 21:46 PM

NASA clocked the Parker Solar Probe at over 330,000 miles per hour as it zipped through the sun's outer atmosphere.

SpaceX Eyes Building Radar-Based Wind Models for Future Tests

05.03.2021 06:30 AM

SpaceX plans to generate radar-based wind models for its test facility in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX recently unveiled plans to produce radar-based wind models for its Boca Chica, Texas test facility.

Space in 2050 Could Already Be Inhabited by ‘Hundreds of Thousands of Humans’

05.03.2021 06:10 AM

A space advocate has been advising investors and company owners on the potential of space as a field of business. They believe that space in 2050 could already be inhabitable.

SpaceX’s Crew-1 Astronauts Flawlessly Splashed Down in Gulf of Mexico as They Return Home from ISS

05.03.2021 05:20 AM

Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from JAXA, return to Earth in rare nighttime splashdown after a six-month stay on ISS.