Get Ready for a Close Encounter! ESA’s Ramses to Shadow Monster Asteroid Apophis in 2029
On July 16, 1994, astronomers were in awe as the first of numerous pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet collided with Jupiter with an...
First-Ever Lunar-Earth Flyby: Europe’s Juice Faces ‘Narrow Corridor’ Challenge
JUICE, the short form for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, is a spacecraft created by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate Jupiter and its three...
How SpaceX is Helping the US Space Force See Satellites Fall From Space
In February 2024, SpaceX announced that it would begin a controlled descent of 100 of its old Starlink version 1 satellites over the coming...
Double Duty Debut: Ariane 6 Delivers Satellites, Demonstrates Next-Gen Engine Capability
On July 9, at 16:00 local time, Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for the first time.
Ariane...
New Space Race Begins as Russian-Chinese Lunar Base Challenges NASA’s Artemis Plans
Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, has signed a law that ratifies an intergovernmental agreement with China regarding establishing the International Scientific Lunar Station...