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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation is interfering with radio telescope observationsAstronomers have long voiced concerns about Starlink's satellite constellation interfering with observations of the universe, and a new survey by Curtin University confirms those fears.
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After 54-year wait, Australia's first attempt at an orbital rocket crashes 14 seconds after liftoffEris-1, the first rocket fully built by an Australian company, crashed back to Earth 14 seconds after taking off from a spaceport in Queensland. It was the country's first orbital launch attempt since 1971.
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Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' gives US Space Force $1 billion for secretive X-37B space planeU.S. President Trump's "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act," H.R. 1 includes $1 billion for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) X-37B military spacecraft program.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory: The groundbreaking mission to make a 10-year, time-lapse movie of the universeArmed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that revolutionize astronomy.
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Spacecraft carrying cannabis and human remains crashes into the oceanA capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company crash-landed in the ocean with a payload that included human remains and cannabis seeds.
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ChatGPT could pilot a spacecraft shockingly well, early tests findIn a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results suggest that an era of autonomous space exploration may be closer than we think.
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Zombie NASA satellite emits powerful radio pulse after 60 years of silenceLast year, astronomers detected a powerful burst of radio waves from within our galaxy. Researchers now say it came from NASA's defunct Relay 2 satellite — but they're not sure what caused it.
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NASA spots Japan's doomed 'Resilience' moon lander from orbit — and it's surrounded by far-flung debrisSpacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its recent "hard landing" on the moon. Some of the images show pieces of the failed lander strewn across the surrounding surface.
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SpaceX's Starship explodes on Texas launch pad in 'catastrophic failure' during routine testSpaceX's Starship 36 underwent a "catastrophic failure" on the stand at its Texas launch site, but the latest setback is unlikely to dent the company's ambitions.
