200,000 light years away, a rotating black hole seven times more massive than our Sun is busy devouring its companion main-sequence star. Scientists have detected polarized photons emerging from the black hole system, housed in the satellite dwarf galaxy LMC X-3, for the first time, researchers from India announced recently.

There’s been a lot of hyperbole and controversy over the science fiction role playing game (RPG) Starfield, which is available on the Xbox and on PC, though not on the PlayStation 5. Boasting 100 systems and a thousand planets for players to visit and explore, as well as shipbuilding, base building, extensive quests, and combat both in space and on foot, it seemed ideal for both RPG fans and space exploration fans.

A Japanese spacecraft is headed for the Moon, on course to attempt a pinpoint landing using technology that transforms the process of descending onto the lunar landscape from finding a place where it is easy to land to touching down where you want to land.

Charting the galaxies in the sky has come a long way since the 18th century, when Charles Messier first included 40 nearby galaxies in his catalog of celestial objects. The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars of 1888 listed more than 6,000 such galaxies, while the Third Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies, published in 1991, lists more than 23,000.

SpaceX concluded another successful Transporter ridesharing mission on Saturday (November 11), with Transporter-9 carrying over 110 satellites and payloads into orbit for companies including Planet Labs, GHGSat, and FoxConn into orbit following a successful launch at Vandenberg Air Force base in California. 

NASA is finally launching their streaming service, “NASA+,” according to recent announcements.

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space plane soared into sub-orbit on Thursday (November 2), marking the fifth commercial flight for the company and the sixth such flight for the reusable craft in the past half-year.

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Once Japan’s H3 rocket is finally ready, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. plans to launch it into space at least six times a year, according to several media reports.

China successfully launched its Shenzhou-17 mission on Thursday morning (October 26). The mission was intended to both resupply China’s Tiangong space station and swap out its 3-person crew from the previous Shenzhou-16 mission for a new crew. 

As part of NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) endeavor, work is ongoing to ensure the collection of Martian samples and their journey to Earth meet the required safety standards, agency officials said during a meeting last week (October 20).

NASA’s plan to award a single contract to produce an upgraded version of the Space Launch System (SLS) is unlikely to radically reduce the cost of producing the astronomically expensive Moon rocket, according to a new report from the space agency’s Office of Inspector General, which also recommended NASA examine using commercial alternatives.