The Latest Breaking News on Space

ISRO successfully tests semicryogenic engine at new facility in Mahendragiri

The test is the first in a series of tests planned to validate the design of the propellant feed system, including the low-pressure and high-pressure turbo-pumps, the gas generator, and control components

The Hindu · May 11, 2023

SpaceX in Good Shape Despite Test Flight: Kiplinger Economic Forecasts

SpaceX in good shape despite test flight concerns: Kiplinger Economic Forecasts.

Kiplinger · May 10, 2023

Hubble Telescope gazes into the heart of a monstrous galaxy cluster (photo)

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope gazes into the lair of a cosmic leviathan, a monstrous cluster of galaxies located nine billion light-years away in the constellation Draco.

Space · May 10, 2023

Hubble telescope spies 'peek-a-boo' exoplanets amid star's tilted dust rings

Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disc of planet-birthing gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.

Space · May 10, 2023

Australia’s first national space mission up in the air after federal budget cuts

Industry says the Albanese government is ‘defunding space programs without explanation’

The Guardian - AU · May 10, 2023

China launches Tianzhou 6 cargo ship to Tiangong space station

China's Tianzhou 6 freighter lifted off on May 10, sending clothing, food, water and propellant toward the country's Tiangong space station.

Space · May 10, 2023

Young star shoots out jet like a garden sprinkler in Orion Nebula (photo)

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a snaking jet of matter expelled from a young stellar object in the Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery not far from our solar system.

Space · May 10, 2023

SpaceX launches 51 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea

SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites toward orbit and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (May 10).

Space · May 10, 2023

JWST eyes new asteroid belt in Fomalhaut

The new space telescope is so powerful that it can spot not merely exoplanets, but distant asteroid belts as well

Salon · May 10, 2023

Northern Lights could be spotted in Scotland tonight due to powerful sun storm

A 'fairly large' ejection of space plasma could cause the light show to appear in our skies.

Daily Record · May 10, 2023