Space

As the new year starts, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX has announced the company will attempt to land its upcoming “Super Heavy” booster with its launch tower! The Super Heavy…

China has become only the 3rd nation in history to bring back lunar samples from the moon! The Chang’e 5 probe with its moon rock samples landed in the Inner…

Catch the brightest shooting stars of the year: the annual Geminids Meteor Show will peak this Sunday night! The bright sky show is a result of dust trails left behind…

China has successfully landed its Chang’e 5 lunar probe on the moon! It is attempting to become only the 3rd country in history to bring back lunar rock samples back…

Commercial space travel for the masses is on the horizon! We’ve heard of SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. Now a company out of Florida called Space Perspective has secured…

Exciting Astronomical sights in 4 weeks time: Jupiter and Saturn will form what’s called a “Great Conjuction”, the closest these planets are visible from Earth in 800 years. You can…

Elon Musk announces that Starship SN8 will do its maiden 15km (50,000 ft) test flight sometime next week! This is the first time the interplanetary space ship will do a…

China has successfully launched its Chang’e-5 lunar mission on Tuesday, in a bid to become only the 3rd nation in history to retrieve moon rocks! Continuing on global momentum in…

SpaceX has successfully launched the Sentinel-6 “dog kennel” satellite, jointly developed by NASA and ESA to monitor the world’s oceans. It blasted off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on…

Private satellite launch company Rocketlabs has successfully recovered its first stage rocket. The launch was from its company facility on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. While the company does not plan…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched the first of many regular crew and supplies launches to the International Space Station on Sunday. 3 NASA astronauts were joined by 1 Japanese…

It’s sky gazing time! Every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky next week. Venus and Mercury will be visible in the mornings while Mars,…

Cooperation is better than isolation: In a sign of increasing international cooperation, Ukraine has become the 9th country to join NASA’s Artemis Agreements on the Principles of Cooperation in Civil…

In another milestone for the private commercial space industry, NASA has officially approved the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket as certified for human space flight. This is…

Blazing ahead into the future, China has just launched its first “6G” satellite into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province. The technology is based on high…

3 NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut have arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ahead of next week’s 2nd human flight aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The…

Scientists in France have announced the potential discovery of 40% of the “missing matter” (sometimes called “Dark Matter”) in the Universe. Undetected for 20 years, vast filaments of the web…

A 9 year old boy in Malaysia has won a NASA “space toilet” competition, beating out 900 other contestants. The challenge was to come up with a toilet that could…

In more commercial space travel news, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic will make its maiden flight from New Mexico’s Spaceport America hub. The flight will be Virgin Galactic’s first revenue generating…

As they say, “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery”. Rocket Lab, a re-usable rocket startup based in New Zealand will attempt to recover one of it’s Electron boosters on…