Phys.org – Space

United Launch Alliance knocked out its first Vulcan Centaur launch of the year on Tuesday night, and its first ever for the Space Force.This post was originally published on this site

Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With more than 11,000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the coming years, as well as more than 1.2 million pieces of space debris greater than 1 […]

In 2024, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features white, leopardlike spots with black borders within a red mudstone and might hold clues about sources of organic […]

SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to fly its Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites, but Elon Musk’s company just knocked out its second launch in less than a month for the company that […]

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t make some improvements to its trajectory along the way. A new paper suggests it might […]

The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity’s expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There’s the engineering challenge of landing a spacecraft on one of […]

3D printing is going to be a critical technology in space exploration, both for its ability to create almost any object, but also because it can utilize in-situ resources, at least in part. However, the […]

Summer’s most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sky—overlapping like a very bright star.This post was originally published on this site

SpaceX wants to nearly double the number of rocket launches into space from the California coast, with plans for almost 100 a year from Vandenberg Space Force Base.This post was originally published on this site

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will have 13 months to develop a low-orbit telescope that will be part of a space mission expected to launch in 2027 to help select future moon landing sites, map mineral […]