Space Debris

Lai Ka-ying, Hong Kong's first astronaut who has been selected to be a payload specialist for Sunday's Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission, said on Saturday she felt very honoured and thankful to be chosen. "I will do my best to finish all the work, and take on the responsibility, as an astronaut,…

TL;DR SpaceX’s Starship V3 deployed mock satellites but lost the Super Heavy booster to an explosion. The $75B IPO is three weeks away. SpaceX launched the 12th test flight of its Starship rocket on Friday evening from Starbase, Texas, marking the debut of the upgraded Version 3 vehicle. The flight…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images For more financial news, visit News24 Business.  The dual-class share structure outlined ‌in SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) filing, which grants CEO Elon Musk outsized control, has revived one…

Shelters, including a temporary improvised bathroom set up between the tents. Photo by the author, used with permission. By Marwa Rommaneh In the early morning hours, when schools are supposed to prepare to welcome students, the yards are filled with men sleeping on the ground. Movement begins before sunrise, and…

Rocket Lab's Lightning satellite bus. WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab said May 21 it won a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to design, manufacture and operate two geostationary satellites the military will use to monitor and track objects in orbit. The award marks Rocket Lab’s first satellite production…

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts experience accelerated ageing could help us fight similar effects on Earth related to sedentary lifestyles, disrupted circadian rhythms and social isolation...Read More

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its planned two-year mission. Installed on the exterior of the International Space Station since November 2023, AWE studied atmospheric gravity waves, which…

Over five decades ago, astronomer Frank Drake used one of Earth's largest radio antennas to beam a coded message into space, hoping that it might one day reach the eyes, ears or other inscrutable sensory organs of intelligent aliens. Slicing silently through the Milky Way at light speed, the now-famous…

An out-of-this-world weather report from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals how clouds move across a giant planet hundreds of light-years from Earth By K. R. Callaway edited by Lee Billings An artistic representation of WASP94-A b, a gas giant exoplanet nearly 700 light-years from Earth. Clouds build as air…

An artist's impression of WASP-94Ab, with magnesium silicate clouds appearing on the terminator between night and day, where it is "morning." (Image credit: Hannah Robbins/Johns Hopkins University) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather forecast for the exoplanet WASP-94Ab, a world with clouds of sand in the…