Elon Musk says SpaceX's 1st orbital Starship will 'hopefully' launch in May | See Saturn, Venus and Mars as moon shines near bright Antares | Comet Leonard has broken into pieces as it rounds the sun: report
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SpaceX's huge Starship rocket for eventual trips to the moon and Mars could go orbital for the first time just two months from now, if all goes according to plan.
A plethora of worlds and a bright star will be visible in the early morning Wednesday (March 23) to predawn risers. All in the sky during the same period will be ringed Saturn, bright Mars, and cloudy Venus, along with the moon and the bright star Antares.
An icy wanderer known as Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) fell apart during its perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, the report said. Perihelion was projected for Jan. 3, roughly a year after the comet's discovery.
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(ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique vidéo du CSG - P Piron)
Five European spacecraft, including a telescope searching for dark matter and dark energy, have been left without a launch ticket after Russia stopped supplying rockets to Europe in response to economic sanctions against the invasion of Ukraine. The European Space Agency (ESA) is now looking for alternatives to get these spacecraft into orbit.
The vehicle is officially known as the Space Launch System (SLS) and is part of NASA's Artemis program. It just rolled out to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday (March 17) for prelaunch testing of the Artemis 1 mission.
Astronomers have added the 5,000th alien world to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, officials with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California announced on Monday (March 21).
he Tianwen 1 orbiter and rover mission, which launched for Mars in July 2020, and Chang'e 5, which gathered the youngest lunar samples ever collected and delivered them to Earth later that year, have thrilled scientists with their results.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the image of Zhurong on March 11, according to a post from the researchers behind MRO's powerful HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.
