1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (1405+ words) SpaceX will launch its next Starship, carrying the first V3 Starlink satellites, on the Flight 13 test mission on July 16. SpaceX is just a day away from its first Starship test flight of the summer, and if you're hoping to watch the…...

13+ hour, 28+ min ago  (138+ words) Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, a daily news publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman…...

14+ hour, 28+ min ago  (272+ words) "Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directly." Astronomers have spotted four dead star white dwarf stars playing a game of cosmic hide-and-seek, all four of which were hiding in the…...

20+ hour, 58+ min ago  (330+ words) SpaceX's massive Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, is scheduled to launch its critical test flight no earlier than Thursday, July 16, at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT) from Starbase, Texas. Our live webcast will begin about 30 minutes prior to liftoff. Launch…...

21+ hour, 28+ min ago  (203+ words) What could we be looking at? NASA's Curiosity rover has spotted a strange honeycomb texture on the surface of Mars. But what is it? Curiosity went to get a closer look at an area first observed from Mars orbit, and…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (181+ words) SpaceX's massive Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, is scheduled to launch its critical test flight no earlier than Thursday, July 16, at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT) from Starbase, Texas. Our live webcast will begin about 30 minutes prior to liftoff. Launch…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (477+ words) The temperature of some sub-Neptunes could rise to several thousand degrees, turning the ground into a lava bath. Clouds formed from vaporized rock could create the ultimate thermal insulation on one of the most common types of exoplanets discovered so…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (287+ words) The Extremely Large Telescope is looking quite large in this exciting moment. The Extremely Large Telescope just passed a serious milestone while coming together. But it's not done yet; the immense telescope is about to get even larger. The European…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (513+ words) "The debris in geosynchronous orbit is a potential minefield." Tiny pieces of space junk only 2 inches (5 centimeters) in size are cluttering a valuable orbital region where some of the costliest satellites reside, a new study has found. Researchers from the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (546+ words) "We're excited to demonstrate how our technology works and to introduce transformative, clean technology the world urgently needs." The first of perhaps tens of thousands of sunlight-directing space mirrors just got cleared for liftoff. California-based startup Reflect Orbital just got…...