Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is about to make its first crewed flight

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft approaching the International Space Station NASA Boeing’s Starliner capsule is finally making its…

Mysterious space signals may come from a dead star with a planet

Artist’s impression showing a fast radio burst travelling from a distant host galaxy to reach Earth…

China is sending its Chang’e 6 spacecraft to the far side of the moon

The Chang’e 6 lunar probe sits atop its rocket at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in…

Kill the sun! How wild thought experiments drive scientific discovery

Listen, it’s not that I actually want to kill the sun – I just want to…

Running around a ‘wall of death’ could keep moon settlers fit

A research participant runs around a circular wall with a bungee cord to simulate the reduction…

How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day?

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the…

How India has slowly but surely become a major player in space

India’s space agency has been remarkably successful in recent years, growing the country’s prestige on the…

Asteroid that broke up over Berlin was fastest-spinning one ever seen

Long-exposure photo showing the trail of asteroid 2024 BX1 shortly before impact. The changes in brightness…

Supermassive black holes may provide a nursery for mini ones to grow

We may have a clearer understanding of why the accretion disc around large black holes is…

Birthplace of red asteroid Kamo‘oalewa pinned to specific moon crater

The redness of asteroid 469219 Kamo‘oalewa marks it out as probably originating on the moon, and…