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09 june
07h15
Spain faces logistical headache ahead of August 12 total solar eclipse
In two months, part of the country will watch the Sun disappear behind the Moon. Authorities, having only recently grasped the full implications of...
01 june
00h50
Meteor explodes over US with blast equivalent to 300 metric tons of TNT
The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire on Saturday, NASA’s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren said in a...
23 may
07h04
SpaceX carries out mostly successful Starship test flight
SpaceX’s Starship splashed down into the Indian Ocean on Friday, and despite a few glitches, the company’s employees cheered on a livestream. The...
22 may
07h20
SpaceX postpones highly anticipated Starship launch
After several rounds of stopping and starting the countdown clock, the company said engineers would not be able to work through last-minute glitches...
21 may
05h31
With SpaceX, Elon Musk launches the most spectacular IPO ever
With the arrival of his space company on Wall Street, the world’s richest man is set to become the first trillionaire in history. His remuneration,...
14 may
05h54
Musk eyes Wall Street record with SpaceX IPO
US media reports say SpaceX is hoping to raise 75 billion and win a valuation of as much as 1.75 trillion when it begins trading as early as next...
22 april
10h16
Interstellar comet ’3I Atlas’ reveals its secrets
The second wave of observations, conducted since December 2025, have allowed scientists to better characterize the chemical composition of this...
11 april
02h58
Light pollution dropped sharply in France between 2014 and 2022
While nighttime brightness generally increased worldwide during this period, a new study highlights the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing...
08 april
14h01
NASA unveils new space telescope to give ’atlas of the universe’
Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble’s....
06h15
Artemis II: The historic mission in photos, from liftoff to splashdown
Nine days, one hour, 32 minutes and 15 seconds after their launch from Cape Canaveral, the four crew members of Artemis II splashed down about 85...
07 april
09h44
Artemis II astronauts splash down off California, ending historic Moon mission
The triumphant moon-farers - commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen - emerged from their bobbing...
06 april
02h10
The stunning images from NASA’s Artemis II mission over the Moon
The crew passed within 6,545 kilometers of the lunar surface during the night of Monday, April 6. Their observations, lasting more than six hours,...
03 april
20h57
Artemis II astronauts head toward Earth, sharing lunar flyby moments
The crew shared an image that was a nod to the iconic Earthrise image taken by the Apollo 8 mission from 1968.
02 april
05h21
Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record with daring moon flyby that included a solar eclipse
The Artemis II team broke Apollo 13’s previous record, traveling 4,101 miles even deeper into space. After the astronauts’ flyby of the moon, they...
22 march
14h46
Artemis II astronauts ready for Moon flyby on fifth day of historic mission
The astronauts will enter the ’lunar sphere of influence’ overnight on Sunday, setting a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before.
Artemis II astronauts blast towards the Moon after spending the day in Earth’s orbit
The astronauts will loop the moon as part of the 10-day mission after a ’flawless’ firing that lasted just under six minutes. The launch marks...
NASA’s historic Artemis II lunar mission blasts off
NASA’s team, which successfully entered Earth’s orbit on Wednesday, includes three American astronauts and a Canadian. Over some 10 days, their...
Russia resumes use of space launch site damaged in accident
Part of the launch site in Kazakhstan collapsed during the lift-off of Soyuz MS-28 in November last year, temporarily preventing Russia from being...
What is, ultimately, the point of sending humans into space?’
Between the high costs of these programs and their often unconvincing scientific results, historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz questions, in his column,...
International crew arrives at space station, carrying France’s second woman in space
The four astronauts are replacing a crew forced to return to Earth early over a medical issue. Among them is astronaut Sophie Adenot, the second...
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