A new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously ...

The most publicized church in the world in 1962 has been the Little Falls United Presbyterian Church of Arlington, Virginia. Its minister, the Rev. Frank A. Erwin, has played a key supporting role in ...

ESA will find out in the next two days how successful they have been in convincing European governments to significantly increase investments in space.

Liftoff of the Shenzhou 22 mission is scheduled for 11:11 p.m. EST (0411 GMT, Nov. 25; 11:11 a.m. Beijing Time).

Blue Origin's New Glenn liftoff marked the 95th orbital rocket launch of 2025 from Florida's Space Coast, extending the ongoing annual record.

The Soviet Venera probes were a series of spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between the 1960s and 1980s to explore Venus, making them the first missions to successfully reach and study another ...

SpaceX launched and landed both sections of its enormous Starship rocket on Monday. The 11th flight test of the most powerful rocket ever built saw both the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the ...

A landscape that appears utterly hostile. Credit: Venera 13 Lander / Soviet Space Program (1982) Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the ...

Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has officially ended operations of the lone mission left in our ...

We’ve known for quite some time that molten rock gouged enormous tunnels into the surface of the Earth, the Moon, and Mars. In fact, scientists have proposed that the vast lava tubes under the surface ...

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The Super Heavy booster's Raptor engines powering the Starship's sixth launch on November 19, 2024. SpaceX SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket has flown 10 times since its first launch in 2023, and the ...