Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft arrives at Tiangong space station
HELSINKI — China launched the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft late Sunday, docking with the Tiangong space station hours later to deliver…
ESA and JAXA finalize agreement on Apophis asteroid mission
WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have finalized an agreement to collaborate on a mission to study…
James Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole that coul…
A unique, X-ray-spewing black hole may help to confirm the enigmatic identity of “little red dots,” a curious class of objects…
MDA Space continues work on Gateway robotic arm
WASHINGTON — MDA Space is continuing work on a robotic arm for the lunar Gateway while it discusses the future of the project with the…
Science news this week: The latest on the cruise ship h…
This week’s science news was dominated by coverage of a cluster of hantavirus infections aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV…
Swift reboost mission completes environmental tests
WASHINGTON — A spacecraft designed to raise the decaying orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite has passed environmental tests ahead of a…
Paraguay signs the Artemis Accords
WASHINGTON — Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords May 7, the sixth country to do so in the last two and a half weeks. Osvaldo Almirón Riveros,…
Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape – NASA Science
Carved over millennia by the pressure and motion of glacial ice, the valley walls cradling the Tracy Arm fjord in southeast Alaska continue to…
Rocket Lab announces large launch contract and plans to acquire space robotics company
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced May 7 the largest launch contract in the company’s history as it also moves to acquire a space robotics…
SatVu zooms in energy facilities in Cuba, India and Australia
SAN FRANCISCO – British startup SatVu released imagery from HotSat-2, a thermal satellite built to keep tabs on energy infrastructure.…