Space

Japanese scientists have gotten their first look inside the sample capsule of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, and even the first glance is promising.

The satellites Blue Canyon developed for DARPA — based on the company’s commercial X-STAR bus — passed a critical design review.

On Monday night (Dec. 14), NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host its own live webcast of the 2020 Gemind meteor shower. That webcast will be broadcast on Facebook here and run from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. EST (0200-1000 GMT). 

Six years after acing its first test flight, Russia’s monster Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket has done it again.

At a fundamental level, Mars is a volcanic planet. Its surface is home to the Solar System’s largest extinct volcano, Olympus Mons, and another trio of well-known volcanoes at Tharsis Montes. And those are just the highlights: there are many other volcanoes on the surface. Though that volcanic activity ceased […]

This morning, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, confirmed that its mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth did indeed bring home some space rocks. Engineers at the agency found black sand they believe to be from an asteroid inside the mission’s sample container.