The Latest Breaking News on Space

SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Monday morning (June 12) and landed the returning rocket at sea.

By examining Betelgeuse’s pulsation – the periodic contraction and expansion of the star – researchers from Japan and Switzerland recently reported that the star is in its late carbon-burning stage. Other researchers have disputed this conclusion and estimated that the star will go supernova only much later.

On June 11, 1963, the Mercury space capsule was patented and assigned to NASA. The patent was received less than a month after the last flight of Project Mercury had been carried out. A.S.Ganesh hands you the details about the Mercury space capsule…

The Mars Express orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first interplanetary mission, entered orbit around Mars on June 2nd, 2003.

Astronomers using the Keck Observatory have spotted a rare type of star evolving into a supernova right before their eyes.

The third quarter phase marks the halfway point between the full moon and the next new moon which will occur on June 18.

A new NASA video explains why and how the features studied by the Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rovers are named.

A Chinese Lijian-1 solid-fuel rocket launched on Wednesday (June 7), carrying 26 satellites to orbit — a rideshare record for the country.

Fifteen years after NASA opened its space artifact archive to schools and museums, the program still has a lot to give. The agency is accepting applications for its 60th screening of space hardware.

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China wants to put a small constellation of satellites in orbit around the moon to create a radio telescope that would open a "new window" into the universe.