Musk-Bezos spat reflects bad space policy
Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate passed a measure that would allot $10 billion over five years for NASA to develop two new lunar landers. Buried in a nearly $250 billion bill intended to boost innovation, the measure was equal to about 43% of ...
New NASA missions will study Venus, a world overlooked for decades
After numerous missions by the United States and the Soviet Union to explore it in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, attention shifted elsewhere.
China should celebrate its Mars success by sharing
The propaganda value of a landing on another planet, as the Communist Party prepares to celebrate its centenary, is not lost on Beijing.
The rover, called Zhurong, set its wheels on Martian soil at 10:40 a.m. Beijing time Saturday and began roaming the planet.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to travel to ISS in December
Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant, Yozo Hirano, will travel aboard a Russian Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft that is scheduled for launch on Dec. 8, 2021.
Heads up! A used Chinese rocket is tumbling back to Earth this weekend.
The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country’s space program designs its missions.
Japanese startup to carry UAE lunar rover to the moon in 2022
Space exploration firm ispace will also provide communications and power during the journey and on the lunar surface.
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and NASA crew return to Earth in SpaceX capsule
The four-member team was initially due to return in late April but their departure was pushed back due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Japan's Akihiko Hoshide among new ISS crew after SpaceX launch
The commercially developed SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon ship carrying a group of four astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday.
As satellites proliferate, telescopes go dark
Satellites reflect sunlight, causing bright trails across the night sky, which in turn can impede crucial observations or corrupt astronomical data.
SpaceX rocketship launches four astronauts on NASA mission to space station
Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide is part of the four-person crew set to arrive at the space station after a 24-hour journey.
Hamburgers on the moon? Astronaut jokes with Suga about lunar project
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has an idea of what an international project to go back to the moon will eventually lead to: Humans enjoying hamburgers on the lunar surface. Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga laugh during a call from the International ...
