Space

A last-moment abort during engine ignition early Friday delayed the second test flight of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The company said it was reviewing data to determine when it would make another launch attempt.

Our satellite enjoys some time on the stage while Jupiter maintains his throne from September 30 to October 7.

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will map portions of the southwest United States for critical minerals using advanced airborne imaging.

In the 65 years since humanity’s first satellite, the number of those in orbit is causing issues for astronomy and space security.

Three Russian cosmonauts rode a Soyuz spacecraft back to Earth Thursday after departing the International Space Station to wrap up 195 days. The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov undocked from the station at 3:34 a.m. EDT (0734 GMT) and landed at 6:57 a.m. […]

The storm has caused further delays in the Artemis 1 rocket launch. The next attempt opportunity will likely be in November. 

NASA will hold a media teleconference today at 4:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Sept. 29, to discuss a new study exploring potential commercial space opportunities for NASA science missions. The agency will livestream audio of the teleconference on its website.

An International Space Station astronaut photographed Hurricane Ian as the powerful storm battered Florida. NASA, SpaceX and others have postponed launches from the Space Coast.

NASA moved the Space Launch System moon rocket back into its hangar Tuesday to take shelter from Hurricane Ian, likely pushing back the next launch attempt for the agency’s long-delayed Artemis 1 lunar test flight until mid-November as Kennedy Space Center braces for high winds and flooding rains.

Located in Serpens Caput, a constellation with few deep-sky objects, Seyfert’s Sextet was one of the first compact galaxy groups ever noted. That occurred in 1948, when astronomer Carl Seyfert discovered that the previously cataloged NGC 6027 was actually more than one object. His Sextet became the densest group of […]