Space

A Canadian space law amendment allowing for the prosecution of crimes committed on the Moon passed Canada’s House of Commons at the end of April, Euronews reported on Thursday.

An alleged serial criminal has been charged with arson for a fire at a California Home Depot that caused $17 million in damages, prosecutors say.

Space Force has confirmed the discovery of the first-known interstellar meteor, which rocketed to Earth off the New Guinean Coast in 2014.

PARIS (AP) – Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe will no longer be attempting this year to send its first rover to Mars, which was to have probed whether the planet ever hosted life.

Social media users have taken to Twitter to mock “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson for going to space with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. “He’s taking some drastic measures to get away from Kanye West,” one user said.

Russia has warned that sanctions on its aerospace industry could result in the International Space Station (ISS) falling into an “uncontrolled deorbit” and smashing into the United States or Europe, potentially with the force of a small nuclear bomb. 

NASA has released a new statement outlining how it plans to operate the International Space Station until 2030. It will then be destroyed by plummeting the station out of orbit into a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The agency plans to transition operations to commercial space stations in the future.

The European Union’s Internal Market Commissioner has said that the bloc wishes to have more control over space.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Thursday it launched a rocket with a satellite carrier bearing three devices into space, though it’s unclear if any of the objects entered orbit around the Earth.

Hazzaa al-Mansouri, the United Arab Emirates’ first astronaut, revealed he took an Israeli flag on his first space mission two years ago, nearly a year before the Trump-led Abraham Accords were signed normalizing ties between the two countries.

Comet Leonard has been a nightly spectacle in the lead-up to Christmas and will continue to dash through the night sky into the New Year. 

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s startup company, Privateer, reportedly plans to launch hundreds of satellites to study space debris. With more than a million pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth, mapping space debris is important to the future of space exploration.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stated at a recent event that he believes will most future humans will not live on Earth and will think of the planet as a protected national park that they visit as a tourist attraction.

Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a segment honoring World Space Week, where she awkwardly spoke to school-age children, marveling over space and highlighting her self-professed infatuation with “the idea of exploring the unknown.”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been stripped of his “astronaut” titles by the FAA. According to the agency’s revised definition of astronaut, the term may only be used for those that “demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg trolled for a free trip to space Tuesday, lamenting such a venture is not “in my budget.”

Following his recent rocket trip to the edge of space, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos admitted that critics of the stunt are “largely right.”

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has landed safely after leaving Earth for just over 10 minutes aboard the New Shepard rocket. The total elapsed time from launch to touchdown was less than 11 minutes, meaning the trip for Bezos, his brother, and two other passengers spent mere minutes at the edge of space.

Germany launched a space command tasked with overseeing satellites, watching for space junk and analyzing other countries’ activities.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has become the first space tourism to ride into space aboard a rocket plane that his company has been developing for 17 years. He has beaten billionaire space fans Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who plans to fly to space aboard a Blue Origin rocket later this month.

The FAA has given Virgin Galactic approval to begin transporting commercial passengers to suborbital space aboard its VSS spaceplane. The company promises stunning views of Earth and several minutes of weightlessness during a two-hour trip.

Chinese government media effusively praised dictator Xi Jinping on Wednesday for holding a conversation with three Chinese astronauts currently making their homes in a national space station — yet another bizarre public display for Xi in light of his total absence from national vaccination efforts.

A Chinese rover has reportedly landed on Mars, making China the second nation, behind the United States, to accomplish a landing on the planet.

Sen. Maria Cantwell plans to attempt to use a bipartisan piece of legislation meant to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s technological advances to instead steer what could end up being a huge boon of a federal contract worth billions of dollars to a company operating in her home state owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Astroscale will launch its first magnetic space junk cleaner in a demonstration set for early Saturday morning at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Britain may be able to leverage an unexpected asset against a rising China as it vies to displace the Western allies as the world’s preeminent power bloc: the remnants of its historic empire. 

A Chinese space mission successfully unfurled the communist country’s flag on the moon, the state propaganda outlet Global Times announced Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched its first mission to Mars on Monday in what is the Arab world’s first-ever space exploration. 

Britain’s defence minister has said that the UK must evolve its defence capabilities to respond to new threats from the skies from hostile actors like Russia and China.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) identified China and Russia as its chief adversaries in potential outer space warfare on Wednesday, announcing a new Defense Space Strategy aimed at deterring the threats posed by the two countries and maintaining U.S. dominance in space.

Russia’s space agency accused U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday of setting a precedent to take over other planets by signing an executive order outlining United States policy on commercial mining in space.

Daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes has died in a crash of a homemade steam-powered rocket during an attempt to leave the earth’s atmosphere. Although Hughes has claimed the Earth is flat and that his flight to the edge of space would prove the flat Earth theory, his PR Representative called the theory a “schtick” Hughes used to gain attention.

According to a recent report, a NASA safety panel has revealed that it is investigating a possible “catastrophic” software glitch that occurred during a crucial test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spaceship designed to carry astronauts.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch has returned to Earth after spending a record 328 days in space, breaking the record for the longest time a woman has spent in space.

President Donald Trump, during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, hailed the United States Space Force — the military’s newest branch, which was created under his command in December.

The Curiosity Rover on Mars is reportedly frozen in place following a systems failure that has rendered the robot unable to determine its position and altitude.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday became the latest woman to spend the longest time in space.

SpaceX said a bug in its “on-call paging system” prevented it from better communication and subsequent coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) to avoid a possible collision between two satellites orbiting Earth, according to a Tuesday-published report at the Verge. The ESA moved its satellite to avoid being hit by the SpaceX “Starlink” satellite.

NASA is investigating what is possibly the first allegation of a criminal act committed in space, according to reports.

After its next planned astronaut moon landing, NASA’s Project Artemis intends to land astronauts on Mars, explained NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.