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A successful deep-space manoeuvre has put ESA’s Hera spacecraft on course for its rendezvous with the Didymos binary asteroid system later this year.

Blue Origin and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are teaming up to design an asteroid-defense spacecraft that will deploy a variety of deflection technologies.

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of the Starlink 8-11 mission on Sept. 4, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is kicking off the St. Patrick’s Day holiday on Tuesday with a Falcon 9 rocket launch, flying from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

A batch of SpaceX’s 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites are shown in low Earth orbit ahead of deployment during the Starlink 17-24 mission on March 16, 2026. Image: SpaceX

Update March 17, 3:10 a.m. EDT (0710 UTC): SpaceX confirms satellite deployment.

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy known as the Hubble tension.

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way, is undergoing a complete galactic transformation after a recent collision with its nearest neighbor.

100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program to extend humanity's reach into deep space.

The Earth's core is the innermost layer, a region of immense heat and pressure that remains largely inaccessible to direct study. Our understanding of the core comes primarily from seismic wave analysis, which allows geophysicists to infer its composition and physical properties.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like rotten eggs.

'It promises that this is just the beginning of the story for these characters. There's so much more to tell.'

Scientists are searching for evidence of microbial life left behind in these mineral deposits.

Siril stands out as one of the best pieces of open-source software available for astrophotographers.

'That truth will upend all established order across the entire world.'

With more than 400 positions to be published in 2026, the European Space Agency has launched a recruitment drive to support ESA’s programmes, missions and strategic initiatives following the 2025 Ministerial Council in Bremen. To help make these projects a reality, we will be recruiting many new colleagues in engineering and science, as well as support services! Your next big opportunity could be here, so read on to find out more. You can also set up a job alert to be the first one to know when opportunities are published.   

Exomoons orbiting rogue planets could host liquid water for billions of years, offering potential habitats for life deep in interstellar space.

Just 35 light-years away, in the southern constellation Volans, the Flying Fish, is a world unlike any other. The weird, low-density planet, known as L98-59 d, appears tohave a deep […]