Can Amazon’s soon-to-launch Kuiper satellites rival Musk’s Starlink?

United Launch Alliance is due to send 27 Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit as Amazon…

Chinese Lunar Rocks Suggest a Thirsty Far Side of the Moon

The far side of the moon — the part that always faces away from Earth —…

There Could Be Life on Titan, But Not Very Much

Saturn’s largest moon Titan, stands out as one of the most Earth-like worlds in our Solar…

This Star Might Have Been Thrown Out of a Globular Cluster by an Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Black holes come in a range of sizes. Stellar mass black holes form from the collapse…

New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Engineers from the European Space Agency’s Radio Frequency Equipment and Technology section successfully tested a new…

New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Engineers from the European Space Agency’s Radio Frequency Equipment and Technology section successfully tested a new…

New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Engineers from the European Space Agency’s Radio Frequency Equipment and Technology section successfully tested a new…

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor rolls out to its test stand

The first model of a future Ariane booster and Vega rocket stage is rolled out to…

Heatwave on Jupiter from strong solar wind amazes scientists

This is an animation of the January 2017 Jupiter heatwave. Scientists used spectroscopic data from the…

A broader view of Acheron Fossae

This image shows a region of Mars known as Acheron Fossae in wider context. Other notable features…