Before heading in for a closer look itself, JAXA's Hayabusa 2 probe will drop a pair of small rovers onto the asteroid Ryugu this week, which will bounce across the surface and scope out the scene.
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Technology designed to clean up space has captured its first bit of simulated space debris in orbit. Part of the RemoveDEBRIS mission, a balloon acted as a target for the RemoveDEBRIS satellite, which fired a weighted net from a range of seven meters (23 ft) and successfully snared the "debris."
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Forget steel, forget diamond and even forget graphene – “nuclear pasta” may be the strongest material in the universe. This strange substance is formed in the intense pressures inside neutron stars, and researchers have now run computer simulations to test just how strong it is.
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The European Service Module for the 25-day unmanned Exploration Mission-1 Orion mission in June 2020 has completed final system integration at the Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany after technicians installed the last radiator unit.
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NASA today shared the first science image captured by its TESS space telescope, providing researchers with plenty of inspiration in their search for other worlds that might resemble our own.
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If Elon Musk’s palms were sweaty during any SpaceX rocket launches of late, just imagine eight famous cultural icons were strapped in for the ride. "We will be doing everything we possibly can to make sure that is a good flight," the CEO said today, and not in a hypothetical sense.
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NASA's Cassini probe burned up in Saturn's atmosphere about a year ago, but a newly-released image shows that its last days were anything but idle. Four days before its fiery end, Cassini's a mosaic view of the Saturnian largest moon Titan's north polar lakes filled with liquid methane and ethane.
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A revolutionary satellite entered space and a veteran rocket retired today as ICESat-2 lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. At 6:02 am PDT atop the last Delta II booster as it headed into a polar orbit 2 to monitor the ice caps using a new laser system.
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Over two weeks after an air leak was detected and sealed aboard the ISS, NASA and Roscosmos have issued a joint statement saying that they have complete confidence in one another, as well as in the station crew, that the investigation is well in hand, and that the ISS is operating normally.
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SpaceX is forging ahead with its plans to launch tourists into space, today announcing that it has signed a contract with an unknown individual who will become the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon.
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