Space and Astronomy News for the 18th of October 2025
Orionids Meteor Shower this week One of the very special annual meteor showers, the Orionids, peaks this week. This meteor shower appears near the constellation of Orion (hence the name)…
Orionids Meteor Shower this week One of the very special annual meteor showers, the Orionids, peaks this week. This meteor shower appears near the constellation of Orion (hence the name)…
Artemis 2 is scheduled to launch in 2024, but it may be tough for NASA to hit that target. Orion's successful splashdown Sunday afternoon (Dec. 11) returned some critical components…
The launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission, which was set for Aug. 1 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, has been delayed to no earlier than Sept. 20 after ground…
No- not the novel by the same name. Picture Earth and the moon careening together around the solar system. It's clear what will happen as the moon continues to circle…
'WTF?': newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can't be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting…
Why Elon Musk's satellite swarm is an accident waiting to happen Astronomers are worried about the SpaceX satellites ruining astro images but what's there are the moment is nothing…
Australian Space Agency funds locally-designed space suits Congratulations to Mars Society Australia member, Dr James Waldie for receiving funding from the Australia Space Agency to help develop the next generation…
eROSITA X-Ray Telescope Captures Hot, Energetic Universe | Astronomy | Sci-News.com A new all-sky image from the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory contains over…
Scientists create exotic matter on space station to explore the quantum world Scientists have generated an exotic form of matter in the unique microgravity environment aboard the International Space…
New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear…
NASA’s Long-Delayed Return To Human Spaceflight With the launch of the SpaceX Demo-2 mission, the United States has achieved something it hasn’t done in nearly a decade: put a…
r/space - Likely Breakup of an Indonesian Commsat Over Guam. Chinese Long March-3B/G2 Failed During 3rd Stage Oh dear - another one disintegrates over Guam Source: www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/fxtfx9/likely_breakup_of_an_indonesian_commsat_over_guam/