December 4th, 2025
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, led a hearing on December 3 regarding the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator. “NASA is at the forefront of American leadership in science and technology. It is critical to our national security amid what I have called […]
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Chinese private aerospace company LandSpace scored a partial success on the road to landing the Zhuqaue-3’s first stage – SpaceX Falcon 9 style. The reusable stage of the Zhuque-3 rocket exploded en route to a targeted touchdown on December 3. While the booster was successful in hurling its dummy payloads into orbit, an “uncontrolled fire” […]
China has announced that the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft now docked with the country’s space station will make an uncrewed return to Earth. Following a suspected debris strike on Shenzhou-20’s viewport, a trio of astronauts originally scheduled to return to Earth aboard the spacecraft were redirected to Shenzhou-21, which brought them home safely on November 14. Billed […]
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, along with Ranking member U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) recently received a letter of support from former NASA astronauts for Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA Administrator. Isaacman is now poised Wednesday, December 3, 2025 to appear at a hearing […]
Mars Guy takes a look at heavy metal from space, a finding from the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover now exploring Jezero Crater. “Perseverance has gone for more than four years without encountering what three previous rovers have found on Mars: rocks not from Mars,” Mars Guy explains. “Now it too may have found a chunk […]
A new video spotlights the Shenzhou-21 crew members — Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang — on board China’s Tiangong space station. The trio of taikonauts has been conducting multiple science experiments, including their first full-system emergency response drills in orbit over the past week. The threesome have been in orbit for a month […]
Skeptic magazine publisher and historian of science Michael Shermer has issued a $1,000 bet that discovery or disclosure of alien visitation to Earth in the form of UFOs, UAPs, or any other technological artifact or alien biological form, as confirmed by major scientific institutions and government agencies, will not happen by December 31, 2030. And […]
That recent Russian Soyuz liftoff on November 27 in Kazakhstan heading for the International Space Station (ISS) left in its wake launch pad damage. The Soyuz MS-28 spaceship carried Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams. They successfully docked with the ISS later in the day. “Damage to several […]
China has unveiled a program for a new-generation space situational awareness constellation. That gaggle of 156 satellites is named EYESAT, with deployment to start early next year. EYESAT is aimed at creating a globally covered and rapidly responsive monitoring network in near-Earth orbit to enhance space environment safety, according to China Central Television (CCTV). Collision […]
A veteran Canadian astronaut has called for international joint efforts to handle emergency events in space, underscoring the rapid launch of the Shenzhou-22 for an emergency mission. Former astronaut Julie Payette was the first Canadian to reside on the International Space Station in 1999 and also lived onboard the ISS in 2009. Payette is currently […]
