Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are finally making their way back to Earth after an eight-day mission to space turned into a nine-month-long hiatus at the International Space Station.

Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches ...

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Go SpaceX. Go SPHEREx, Go PUNCH. SPHEREx and PUNCH on their way to map out our universe like never before and revolutionize space weather forecasting. SPHEREx is drifting away from Falcon 9’s ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

an astronomer for the Chabot Space & Science Center, told SFGATE in an email. The show is expected to kick off at 8:57 p.m. as the moon fades slightly and begins to cross into the Earth’s outer ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt’s first ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has taken a controlling interest in the Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space. The New York Times first reported the change becoming official ...

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has received an order from Asia’s largest satellite operator SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation to build its JSAT-32 geostationary communications satellite, the joint venture ...

Researchers found that greenhouse gases cause the upper atmosphere to contract, particularly the thermosphere, which is the region where the International Space Station and most satellites orbit.

Mr. Schmidt, 69, succeeds Relativity Space’s current chief and co-founder, Timothy Ellis, the two people said.It is unclear how much money Mr. Schmidt has invested in the start-up.

Briot WASHINGTON — Japan’s SKY Perfect JSAT has ordered a satellite from Thales Alenia Space to sustain its geostationary services, marking the European manufacturer’s second commercial ...