23 October 2020
Nokia Bell Labs division has been selected by NASA to build the first ever communications system on the Moon that will be deployed in late 2022 by a lunar lander developed by Intuitive Machines
21 October 2020
In a first for the US agency, OSIRIS-REx briefly touched a primitive asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from its surface. NASA will know soon whether it collected enough material or if another attempt is needed
19 October 2020
A known super-Earth 40 light years away could turn out to be the first water-filled world in the habitable zone of its star
16 October 2020
Researchers at the SWRI have been working on an device called a "Clockwork Starfish" that could be used to collect samples from an asteroid
14 October 2020
Seven countries have joined the United States in signing the Artemis Accords via a virtual ceremony, meanwhile Russia downplays its involvement in the Artemis lunar-orbiting Gateway because it is too “US-centric.”
Astronomers have spotted a rare blast of light from a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole and this is the closest one yet at just over 215 million light-years from Earth
Although not part of its original mission objectives, the BepiColombo spacecraft could get chance to search for phosphine – a gas linked to signs of life – as it makes its first fly of Venus next week
A Chinese company has put in an application to launch nearly 13,000 satellites, amidst concerns raised this week during #WorldSpaceWeek of the impact of mega-constellations on astronomical obseratories
A team of researchers have identified 24 "superhabitable" planets that are potentially better than our own and more may be lurking in current data waiting to be found
With NASA funding, US firm ICON has launched “Project Olympus” to begin developing a space-based construction system that could support future exploration of the Moon
