Our New Map of Every Mars Landing Attempt, Ever Emily Lakdawalla • June 3, 2020 The Planetary Society has a new and improved guide to all the places we’ve landed—or crashed—on Mars It’s almost Mars launch season again! Once every 26 months, as Earth runs on its inside track around the Sun,...

SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites and lands rocket in dazzling nighttime liftoff CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit late Wednesday (June 3) and nailed a rocket landing at sea to top off the mission.  The launch is the second...

Space is Hard Later this month, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will take to the skies for the third time to launch the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission. Several exciting, one-of-a-kind NASA technology and science payloads are among the two-dozen spacecraft aboard. First, let’s talk about that...

Mission Monday: Five fast facts about the first American spacewalk On June 3, 1965, NASA astronaut Ed White stepped out of his Gemini capsule and into space for the first American spacewalk. Attached by only a 23 foot tether and 25 foot umbilical, White floated in space for roughly 20...

Top 5 risks of space exploration Part 1: Gravity  Voyager has left the solar system; we have rovers on Mars and New Horizons has ventured into the Kuiper Belt. But the goal is not only to have robots in space, but a sustainable human presence. This human element is the...

Black Hole Seen Blasting Out Jets at Close to the Speed of Light The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has spotted a distant black hole shooting out jets of material, at close to the speed of light. No worries, this beast is about 10,000 light years away from us. It’s more of...