A Japanese Epsilon rocket lifts off Oct. 12 with eight small satellites. Credit: JAXA
Engineers investigating the Oct. 12 launch failure of a Japanese Epsilon rocket have traced the problem to the attitude control system on the second stage, Japan’s space agency said Tuesday.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev just landed from a six-month International Space Station stay last month.
Orbex announced a fundraising round Tuesday (Oct. 18) to boost its first space rocket off the pad, as it faces a crowded industry in the U.K. vying for the first vertical rocket launch.
Earthquakes are one of Earth's biggest and deadliest natural disasters. Here we explore earthquakes in more detail while uncovering how and why they happen.
You can save over $300 on a reliable and versatile mirrorless camera, but hurry as the offer ends October 22.
At the end of their lives red supergiant stars explode in massive supernova blasts. Rapid dimming caused by a shroud of dense material could warn astronomers this violent event is about to occur.
Take a few minutes to become an eclipse expert for family and friends.
Astronomers believe that it can take 10 million years or more to build a planet like the Earth. But studies of protoplanetary disks show that they can only last 1 to 3 million years. How can planet formation finish if the material its made from disappears so quickly? A team of astronomers have proposed a solution: it’s a simple matter of bias in our observations.
The October Council edition of ESA Impact is online
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Watch the replay of Samantha’s first news conference in Europe after almost six months of living and working on board the International Space Station. Samantha talks from ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. Her Minerva mission came to an end last week and she and her colleagues from Crew-4 splashed down off the coast of Florida on 14 October at 22:55 CEST.
An astronaut onboard the ISS recently captured a peculiar image of Earth with two unrelated blue blobs of light shining in the planet's atmosphere.
The Mars Express spacecraft has witnessed a rare spectacle, spotting Mars' moon Deimos appearing to pass in front of Jupiter and its moons on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14).
The partial solar eclipse will only be visible from select areas on Earth, but thanks to the internet, astronomy fans elsewhere can catch the event online and for free.
After a two-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the ship transporting the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite docked at Pariacabo in French Guiana and the precious cargo unloaded. Now safe and sound in one of the spaceport’s cleanrooms, satellite engineers will ready it for liftoff on an Ariane 5 rocket in December. Once in geostationary orbit, this new satellite, which carries two new extremely sensitive instruments, promises to further bolster Europe's leadership in weather forecasting.
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise.
The National Science Foundation announced last week that it won’t rebuild or replace the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which collapsed in 2020. Instead, the NSF says they have solicited calls for proposals to build a multidisciplinary educational center at the site.
NASA astronaut James McDivitt, who commanded Gemini 4, the first U.S. mission to conduct a spacewalk, before leading Apollo 9, the first test flight of the Apollo moon lander, has died at age 93.
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). Originally predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, these waves are ripples in spacetime that occur whenever massive objects (like black holes and neutron stars) merge. Since then, countless GW events have been detected by observatories across the globe – to the point where they have become an almost daily occurrence. This has allowed astronomers to gain insight into some of the most extreme objects in the Universe.
Lodewijk van den Berg, who studied crystal growth aboard the space shuttle Challenger as the first Dutch-born astronaut, has died at the age of 90. He logged just over a week in space.
The U.S. Space Force seeks to ramp up its 'rapid launch' capabilities with a pair of task orders supporting a 2023 mission devoted to assessing orbital threats.
SpaceX is taking a measured approach to the testing that will get its newest Starship prototype ready for liftoff.
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