According to an announcement by the agency, the Space Wireless Energy Laser Link (SWELL) was launched late Tuesday by the US Naval Research Laboratory. The purpose of the launch was to demonstrate laser power beaming in space as part of a Defense Department Space Test Program H9 mission to the International Space Station. The SWELL experiment was launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle to … Continue reading Pentagon to Test First In-Space Laser Beam

Officials from the Pentagon have cautioned that an extraterrestrial mother vessel might be present within our solar system, and dispatching probes towards Earth. As per the US intelligence center, it has been suggested that tinier probes might be employed to explore other planets, similar to NASA’s approach, the Daily Star reported. The report, which centers on the limitations of unidentified aerial phenomena, highlighted the possibility … Continue reading Pentagon issues official warning over ‘alien mothership UFO sending probes to Earth’

According to the leader of the U.S. Space Force, China has successfully deployed numerous satellites over the last six months, resulting in a total of 347 orbiting devices owned by the People’s Liberation Army. These satellites have the capability to collect intelligence on the armed forces of the United States. During a Senate hearing, General Chance Saltzman stated that the development of lasers to interfere … Continue reading China has launched hundreds of satellites to target US

NASA is striving to create a spacecraft that has the capability to direct the International Space Station (ISS) to a controlled demolition in Earth’s atmosphere when it is time for the station to complete its orbit. Details of this plan were revealed on Thursday, March 9, with the release of the White House’s 2024 federal budget request. NASA was granted a budget of $27.2 billion, … Continue reading NASA seeks “space tug” in $30 billion dollar funding to bring down space station

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured the elusive and momentary phase of a star that is about to die. On Tuesday, NASA unveiled the image at the South by Southwest conference held in Austin, Texas, the Associated Press reported. Shortly after its launch in late 2021, the Webb Space Telescope made one of its earliest observations. Using its infrared capabilities, it captured an image … Continue reading Star on Brink of Death Captured by NASA’s Webb Telescope

After several attempts on Saturday, the launch of the world’s first 3D-printed rocket was ultimately canceled, representing a new challenge for the private owner of a revolutionary spacecraft that was claimed to be less expensive to manufacture and operate. On Saturday, the Terran 1 rocket, which was the world’s first 3D-printed rocket, experienced several launch attempts, but they were ultimately scrapped, PhysOrg reported. This marked … Continue reading Launch of world’s first 3D-printed rocket canceled

On Saturday, four astronauts who had been on the space station returned to Earth in a SpaceX spacecraft. The capsule carrying the four astronauts splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. During their five-month stay at the International Space Station, a crew comprising of members from the U.S., Russia, and Japan had to navigate around space … Continue reading Five-month mission for four astronauts aboard SpaceX comes to an end as they return home

Valentine’s Day in the future could be disastrous for the planet Earth. Earlier this week, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office revealed that they have identified an asteroid that could potentially collide with Earth on February 14, 2046, KXAN reported. The asteroid 2023 DW, which is approximately 160 feet in diameter, is currently about 12 million miles away from Earth, and is moving at a speed … Continue reading Asteroid could hit Earth on Valentine’s Day in 2046

The Ukrainian deployment of commercial satellites to aid in their defense against the Russian invasion has increased the U.S. Space Force’s enthusiasm for harnessing the private sector’s capabilities to create novel space warfare technologies, the Washington Post reported. However, the potential dependence on private corporations and the technological advancements that have led to the development of smaller yet more powerful satellites have placed the Defense … Continue reading U.S. officials debating rules for a conflict in orbit

Astronomers are gaining insights into the origin of water in our solar system billions of years ago, thanks to a neighboring star system, CNN reported. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes (ALMA) in northern Chile, scientists were able to observe a youthful star named V883 Orionis, which is situated 1,300 light-years away. Encircling the star is a planetary-forming disk comprising a cloud of … Continue reading Astronomers detect water molecules swirling around a star

Sky-watchers will have a special treat this week as the final full moon of winter coincides with another celestial event. The March moon, which was dubbed the worm moon by Native American tribes in the 18th century as a nod to the various creatures that emerge from their winter shelters to usher in spring, is set to achieve its maximum brightness at 7:42 a.m. ET … Continue reading A worm moon is set to light up the sky this week

There is a lot of chatter on social media about a potential upcoming test launch of a mysterious rocket or weapon system from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, located south of the Kennedy Space Center. Although we cannot confirm the exact purpose of this launch window, it strongly suggests that a test of a hypersonic weapon is imminent, as reported by The Drive. A … Continue reading Mysterious Space Launch Out Of Cape Canaveral Appears Imminent

With several solar flares and coronal mass ejections soaring out into space, the sun has had an active few months as the current solar cycle gathers momentum. This solar cycle, Solar Cycle 25, is exceeding expectations in terms of activity, as it was initially forecast in 2019 that Solar Cycle 25 would have a similar activity level to that of the previous cycle. However, Solar … Continue reading The sun is becoming more active than what experts had forecasted, and it is causing concern

China this week revealed that two of its astronauts had conducted a secretive space walk around the Tiangong space station, marking the second extravehicular operation over the last three months. Two members of the Shenzhou 15 crew, dubbed the “Dream Crew,” successfully exited the space station to complete “scheduled tasks” with the aid of another crew member, who remained in the cabin along with one … Continue reading China conducts secretive space walk ignoring international norms

Plumes of dust and rocks kicked up from the surface of asteroid Dimorphos after NASA’s DART spacecraft smashed into it altered the space rock’s orbit more than the kinetic impact alone, according to research published on Wednesday. Boffins successfully changed the position of an astronomical body in space for the first time in history during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission last October. A 610kg … Continue reading NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy

SpaceX and NASA launched a fresh crew of astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, kicking off a roughly six-month stay in space. The mission — which is carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates — took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 12:34 a.m. ET Thursday. The Crew Dragon, … Continue reading SpaceX launches international crew of astronauts on space station mission

The Hakuto-R spacecraft won’t land on the Moon until April, but the private mission is already in the record books. Tokyo-based company ispace developed the lunar spacecraft and lander with the aim of becoming the first private mission to successfully land on the Moon. During its long journey to the Moon, Hakuto-R got as far as 855,000 miles (1.376 million kilometers) away from Earth on … Continue reading Lunar Lander Travels Deeper Into Space Than Any Other Commercial Spacecraft

Our solar system is home to millions of renegade space rocks, and this week three particularly large ones will blaze past Earth. But don’t worry – the closest one will still miss our planet by a comfy 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers), or about 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA. On Monday (Feb. 27), an asteroid named … Continue reading NASA warns of 3 skyscraper-sized asteroids headed toward Earth

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched the first batch of its next-generation Starlink internet satellites as the company upgrades and further builds out its orbiting network. A Falcon 9 rocket carried 21 of the satellites, known as “V2 Mini” satellites, into orbit on Monday. The satellites represent the first iteration of Starlink’s “Gen2” plans, which the Federal Communications Commission authorized in December. Musk shared a video … Continue reading SpaceX begins launching second-generation Starlink satellites with four times the network capacity

This week, three sizable space rocks will make a close approach to Earth as they travel through our solar system. However, there is no need for concern as the nearest one will pass by our planet at a safe distance of 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers), which is approximately 10 times the average distance between the Earth and the moon, as confirmed by NASA. … Continue reading NASA warns of 3 skyscraper-sized asteroids headed toward Earth this week

On Monday evening (Feb. 27), SpaceX launched the first of a new generation of Starlink internet satellites into orbit in a beautiful sunset liftoff, Space.com reported. On Monday evening (Feb. 27), SpaceX launched 21 of its latest Starlink “V2 mini” satellites into orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch was delayed by approximately five hours from … Continue reading SpaceX launches 1st batch of new ‘V2 mini’ Starlink satellites to orbit

Astronomers are examining yet another strange signal coming from space. This time, researchers say the radio signals have a strange “heartbeat-like” pattern — coming from a source inside the Sun’s atmosphere.  Scientists detected the signals within a C-class solar flare over 5,000 kilometers above the Sun’s surface. Detecting and studying the solar signals could help astronomers understand the physical properties that drive solar flares — … Continue reading Mysterious ‘heartbeat-like’ radio signals discovered inside a solar flare

In a frustrating disappointment, the launch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying a four-man crew bound for the International Space Station was called off with less than three minutes to go early Monday because of trouble with a system used to ignite the Falcon 9’s first stage engines. SpaceX’s closeout team then returned to the pad, opened the capsule’s side hatch and helped the … Continue reading SpaceX aborts launch of four-man crew to space station just before liftoff

An uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft launched to replace a damaged Soyuz arrived at the International Space Station Feb. 25. The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft docked with the station’s Poisk module at 7:58 p.m. Eastern, a few minutes ahead of schedule. The spacecraft had launched two days earlier on a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Instead of a crew, it carried about 430 kilograms of … Continue reading Replacement Soyuz arrives at space station