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This week's ISS astronaut launch used a Soyuz rocket emblazoned with an ad for an energy drink. It's not the first time Russia has put an ad in space - and more may be coming.

Image: From left to right, NASA astronauts Chrstina Koch, Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, with ESA's European Service Module team behind them at ESTEC.

SpaceX aborted the launch of its latest Starship test flight July 16 when some of the vehicles engines failed to ignite. The post SpaceX aborts Starship Flight 13 launch attempt appeared first on SpaceNews.

Reflect Orbital moves ahead with the company's first Eärendil launch amid concerns from the astronomical community.

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has a massive 570 megapixel camera, and its new image is of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. Corona Australis is one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth. It's not as well-...

Description This composite of images taken by NASAs Psyche mission shows thecrescent of Marsgrow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. The series begins with the smalles...

So much more than the earwormiest theme song in the galaxy.

In April 2026, NASAs Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing altered blood flow status within a cohort o...

New images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter have captured strange-looking waves on the Red Planet.

This composite image, released on July 9, 2026, shows the region around a pulsar - a neutron star with a strong magnetic field that spins incredibly fast - within the Lighthouse nebula. The image contains X-ray data from...

An accelerating observer finds their empty vacuum glowing with real particles, a bizarre effect called Unruh radiation. It's a cousin to Hawking radiation, but with no black hole required, just a rocket and its throt...

Read this release in English here. Ya está abierto el plazo de acreditación de los medios de comunicación para el lanzamiento de la misión del telescopio espacial Nancy Grace Roman de la NASA. El lanzamiento del tele...

The Perseid meteor shower begins on July 17 alongside two others, making "shooting stars" likely any night this month and next.

Sorry, "Predator", but four decades later, this is still the sub-genre's high watermark

Image: Mars Express image

Description Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASAs Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color mosaic created from four individual images acquired on May 15, 2026, during the spacecraftsflyby of Mars. Psy...

When supermassive black holes (SMBH) in a certain mass range eat a star, they first tear it apart in a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). By detecting TDE across cosmic time, astronomers can chart the growth of SMBH as the Un...

According to one researcher, this observation "promises new insights into the evolution of the early universe."

As far as we know, food doesnt exist naturally in space. We have to bring it with us if we want to explore the final frontier. One of the oldest and most common types of food on planet Earth is seafood, yet we know surpr...

India's first privately built orbital rocket, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1, will try to reach orbit early Saturday morning (July 18), and you can watch the historic action live.

Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket aced its debut mission on Saturday morning (July 18), making India the third nation with a private orbital launch capability.

Constant acceleration builds a horizon out of nothing but motion, walling off part of the universe forever. Meet Wolfgang Rindler, the coffee date you'll never reach, and the light that can chase you for infinite tim...