Five Historic Space Milestones That Shaped 2024
From historic firsts in reusable rockets to commercial spacewalks, 2024 was a transformative year in exploring the cosmos.
Unidentified Rocket Fragment Crashes in Kenyan Village
The piece of space debris is believed to be a separation ring from a rocket, according to Kenya's space agency.
Earth's orbit is so crowded that space traffic controllers issue more than 1,000 collision warnings per day
Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of ...
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How are auroras made? Space rocket takes a closer look at the Northern Lights
What happens at the particle level when aurora lights dance in rapid, shape-shifting arcs. An experiment called KiNET-X found ...
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Rocket Lab launches private Earth-imaging satellite to orbit on its final flight of 2024 (video)
Rocket Lab launched a private Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit today (Dec. 21) on the company's final mission of a busy 2024. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand ...