There’s a lot of technological progress required before off-Earth mining operations can be considered feasible.
The private spacecraft could be flying cargo missions to the space station as soon as 2023.
The 2022 Humans to Mars Summit kicks off on Tuesday (May 17) in Washington, D.C.
Here are eight more astronomical events to look forward to for the rest of the year, including meteor showers and another total eclipse of the moon.
The total lunar eclipse was the longest since 1989.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that the company has developed an on-orbit additive-manufacturing technology that uses ph
Starliner is carrying more than 500 pounds of cargo on OFT-2, most of it food and other provisions.
The solar system’s current planetary orbits seem stable, but that’s only because the planets have settled into them over billions of years. The early solar system was a much different place than that seen today, and for almost 20 years,…
CASPER, Wyo. — The National Weather Service assures those looking to see the lunar eclipse shortly after sunset that mostly clear skies are expected to
A hidden gem published on YouTube shows the inside of the infamous Universe 25 experiment, which saw a mouse utopia turn into a mouse apocalypse. Over the
A total eclipse of the moon.
Jessica Watkins shares her experience with being aboard the International Space Station, making her dreams a reality.
In this lesson, students will learn how NASA is “sonifying” the universe and how these sounds might change our understanding of the most enigmatic entity in the cosmos.
NASA releases new images and sounds created from data collected on black holes.
A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early Monday in the Americas.
A remarkable celestial show took to the skies over the Chicago area on Sunday, as a “super flower blood moon” occurred during a total lunar eclipse.
Boeing's Starliner may need a redesign to resolve its persistent valve issues. Boeing and its supplier blame each other for the problem.
MetaBallStudios' latest size comparison video takes a look at mecha of different sizes. But which giant robots are the biggest of all?
Imagine walking through a dense, hazy fog in the middle of the night, seeing patches of light from cars and towns shimmering in the distance. It's nearly impossible to tell if the lights are deep in the ...
We have a special treat tonight: a Flower Blood Super Moon. What in the world (or out of this world) is that? When is the best time to see it? Tonight, thankfully, the skies will be clear, perfect …
Apple TV+ released the trailer for season three of “For All Mankind,” which returns to the service on Friday, June 10, featuring ten weekly episodes. By altering historical events, the drama imagines a global space race occurring after the 1969…
Astronauts at the International Space Station enjoyed stunning views of the lunar eclipse on the night of May 15.
A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early Monday in the Americas. The eastern half of North America and all of Central and South America were prime locations to see the eclipse,…
The universe treated Washingtonians to both a double rainbow and a blood moon Sunday night.
A three-way race to Mars is set to lift off with the return of the critically-acclaimed "For All Mankind." Apple TV+ released the trailer for the third season, which sees the series jump ahead nearly ten years, picking up in…
Samantha Cristoforetti said music is the perfect complement to spaceflight.
Leonardo Barilaro, a pianist based in Malta will team up with SpaceX to broadcast his music directly from the ISS.
Rosie is set to lift off on Thursday (May 19).
Robotics and human research were the dominant research themes aboard the International Space Station on Monday.
"We're not going to come in second place again to anyone."
Jessica Watkins has been at the International Space Station for about two weeks, and on Monday she’s talking with students at her alma mater about her career and experience.
Lately some readers have asked me how they can become “mosquitoes” for Louisiana’s coast.
"I think if they look back on it, they wouldn't do it again."
Welcome to Mars, cosmonauts!
The new season premieres on Friday, June 10.
In this edition of Inverse Daily read about climate-friendly foods, why men might keep their socks on in bed, and how robots could be coming for a vital service-industry job.
The International Space Station is getting ready to welcome Boeing’s new Starliner crew ship due to lift off next week on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission.
The world should consider ways in which to increase sunlight reflection in order to curb climate change risks, write these guest authors.
Using the most diplomatic language possible, the three billionaires who paid $55 million each for a trip to the International Space Station told a news conference they were overworked on their epic adventure. “With the value of hindsight, we were…
The mysterious, irregularly shaped Amalthea is one of Jupiter’s five inner moons.
Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically credible if you use the word multiverse. The Marvel multiverse puts multiple different versions of our universe “out there,” somewhere. In these films,…
As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson,…
The International Space Station was imaged transiting across the Moon on Wednesday at 9:53 pm (EST) [7:23 am (IST) on Thursday] from Fort Pierce in Florida.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover captured a photo earlier this month that could lead to some believing it found a secret entrance to an alien underground base
As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson,…
With the telescope optics and instruments aligned, the Webb team is now commissioning the observatory’s four powerful science instruments. There are 17 different instrument “modes” to check out on our way to getting ready for the start of science this…
We drove just over 30 metres in the last plan, reaching today’s location.
For decades, measurements of the universe's expansion have suggested a discrepancy known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to transform cosmology. But a new method suggests the tension may not exist after all
Astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission, including crew members from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), will answer questions about their recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a post-splashdown news conference at 11:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11.
A transport ship delivered the SES 22 and Nilesat 301 geostationary communications satellites to Cape Canaveral over the weekend to prepare for two launches on SpaceX rockets in June, completing a trans-Atlantic journey from France originally planned on Russian-owned cargo…
NASA's InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars has detected the most powerful seismic tremor ever measured on another planet, a "marsquake" estimated at magnitude 5, strong enough to reveal new insights about the deep Martian interior.
More than half of the spacecraft SpaceX needs to fill the company's planned first-generation, 4,408-satellite Starlink network are now in orbit, following the addition of 106 new internet relay nodes launched on two Falcon 9 rockets Friday and Saturday.
Less than 24 hours after launching Starlink satellites from California, SpaceX lofted another 53 internet relay stations at 4:40 p.m. EDT (2040 GMT) Saturday from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. It was SpaceX's 20th launch of the year,…
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday afternoon from California's Central Coast with another batch 53 Starlink internet satellites, pushing the total number of spacecraft launched in the network above 2,500, including testbeds and prototypes already cycled out of the…
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 3:07 p.m. PDT (6:07 p.m. EDT; 2207 GMT) Friday with 53 Starlink internet satellites. The booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.
Members of NASA’s independent safety advisory panel on Thursday cautioned the space agency not to rush toward a crew test flight of Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft. The safety advisors also said there are "obvious safety concerns" about SpaceX's plan to…
A small satellite launcher developed by the Chinese startup iSpace failed to place its Earth observing payload into orbit Friday, the third consecutive failure for the company's Hyperbola 1 rocket.
Weather permitting, SpaceX teams in California and Florida plan to launch two Falcon 9 rockets Friday and Saturday, each hauling 53 more Starlink satellites to join the company's global broadband network.
NOAA released the first imagery from the new GOES-18 weather satellite that launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral, and confirmed the spacecraft's main camera doesn't suffer the same cooling system problem that caused degraded vision in an earlier satellite.
What goes for moving clocks goes for everything else; physics, chemistry and biology all operate at a slower pace in moving frames of reference.
There are five different types of solar flares. Discover what solar flares are, what causes them and the effects they have on Earth in our solar flare guide.
On May 17, 1974, NASA launched the first Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, SMS-1. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.
The 2022 Humans to Mars Summit kicks off on Tuesday (May 17) in Washington, D.C.
The six crewmembers include one person who has flown to space with Blue Origin before.
Making sure Starliner is ready to carry astronauts involves a crucial step in the scientific process: experimentation.
The fifth crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle is scheduled to lift off Friday (May 20) at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT).
Sierra Space plans to start launching resupply missions to the International Space Station as soon as 2023.
2022 will experience two total lunar eclipses. The first occurred on May 15-16 and the second will happen on November 8.
Astronomical twilight is the darkest phase of twilight that a viewer sees before the last refracted sunlight leaves the horizon. It usually occurs twice a day.