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What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometres from Earth? For China's Tianwen-2 mission, the answer was a four hundred day chase...

Science & Exploration 14/07/2026 1149 views 19 likesYesterday, the four Artemis II astronauts visited ESA’s technical site in the Netherlands, where they met the team behind the European Service Module that powered their Orion spacecraft around the Moon and safely...

SpaceX targeting July 16 for Starship Flight 13The next Starship launch has arrived!SpaceX is targeting no earlier than July 16 for the next launch of its massive Starship rocket, the company announced on in a post on X. Flight...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) recently made a first-ever discovery when observing SDSS J110546.07+145202.4, a spiral galaxy located about 1.8 billion...

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)Back to ECF HomeAdvanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric EntryDamiano BaccarellaUniversity of Tennessee, KnoxvilleApplication of Resonance Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization Diagnostics to the Characterization of Arcjet Flows​Ciprian DumitracheColorado...

From the path of totality and the spectacular Baily's beads to why this eclipse will be especially beautiful at sunset, discover what makes the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse so special.Featuring ESA Reserve Astronaut Sara García Alonso and...

Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation and aerospace, has passed away at age 87.Born in Texas in 1939, Funk was determined to take to the skies,...

Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto.On June 23, flight...

On 5 February, a black sedan was speeding down an icy track in northern China at 95 kilometres per...

NASA and China's national space agency plan to send crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades. Per NASA's Moon to Mars mission architecture, this will involve using infrastructure established through...