​ Chinese private rocket launches 1st satellite for international customer (Image Credit: Space.com) Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space announced that it successfully launched 15 satellites into Earth orbit, including one for the Sultanate of Oman. CAS Space’s

​ Open Gateway: Step into mock lunar orbit habitat at Space Center Houston (Image Credit: Space.com) The public can now step into the future of lunar exploration by entering an early mockup for astronaut accommodations around the moon.

​ Ariane 6 upper stage visits ESA’s temple of boom (Image Credit: Phys.org) This picture shows the LEAF with its doors open after testing, the facility has half-a-meter thick walls and doors to contain the barrage of noise

​ Happy New Year on Mars (Image Credit: Phys.org) To mark 20 years of ESA’s Mars Express, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) team has produced a new global colour mosaic: Mars as never seen before. The mosaic

​ New research challenges dark matter theory in galaxy formation (Image Credit: Phys.org) Protogalaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the

​ Astronomers investigate long-term variability of blazar AO 0235+164 (Image Credit: Phys.org) Comparison of the AO 0235+164 R-magnitudes taken with both optical telescopes (x-axis: Zeiss-1000, y-axis: AS-500/2). Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.01497 Astronomers have performed a comprehensive multiwavelength

​ Space Force new GPS satellites are running months behind schedule (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Pentagon’s first batch of new and more capable GPS satellites is as much as eight to 11 months behind