SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this evening
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send 23 more of the company’s Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23), if all goes according to plan.Continue Reading
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send 23 more of the company’s Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23), if all goes according to plan.Continue Reading
The Full Pink Moon of April 2024 steals the show tonight as it crosses the nighttime sky from dusk until dawn.Continue Reading
Rocket Lab will launch a South Korean Earth-observation satellite and new NASA solar-sailing tech this evening (April 23), and you can watch it live.Continue Reading
How Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia formed remains unknown, but researchers have imagined a body about the size of Switzerland crashing into Pluto at a shallow angle.Continue Reading
Astronomers have mapped a 20,000-light-year-long fountain of gas blasting from a nearby galaxy and polluting intergalactic space at 450 times the top speed of a jet fighter.Continue Reading
India has announced its intent to join the global effort to reduce space debris in low Earth orbit.Continue Reading
To commemorate Earth Day, enjoy these 12 NOAA satellite images that showcase the different ways this critical technology helps scientists keep an eye on our planet.Continue Reading
Combining AI and observations of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, scientists have reconstructed a 3D video of Sagittarius A* and its environment.Continue Reading
On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally “phoned home” and updated its NASA operating team about its health. The interstellar explorer is back in touch after five months of sending back nonsense data.Continue Reading
Satellites are tracking in real time as multiple major coral reefs around the world get paler due to warming sea temperatures in the fourth-ever global bleaching event.Continue Reading
For Earth Day this year, the Google doodle is highlighting areas of our planet it sees itself in.Continue Reading
A new story trailer has dropped for Ubisoft’s new “Star Wars Outlaws” video game.Continue Reading
New James Webb Space Telescope documentary, “Deep Sky,” returns to IMAX screens for Earth Day. Watch two exclusive clips here at Space.com.Continue Reading
China has made progress on a powerful rocket engine to power its new reusable rockets that are expected to launch the nation’s planned crewed moon missions.Continue Reading
Six newly selected NASA airborne campaigns will focus on a range of studies focusing on Earth and its changing climate.Continue Reading
Astronomers are especially interested in the habitability of these kinds of planets, which always face their star with the same side, because they are incredibly common in the universe.Continue Reading
Here we look at the best photo of the total solar eclipse sent to us by our readers. From diamond rings to exquisite close-ups, we have it all and more!Continue Reading
As a planetary scientist and astrobiologist who studies ice grains from Enceladus, ‘’m interested in whether there is life on this or other icy moons. I also want to understand how scientists like me could detect it.Continue Reading
The Apollo program put humans on the moon in 1969. So why haven’t we sent any more since?Continue Reading
We spoke to Jamie Carter about winning the award and his plans for future solar eclipses.Continue Reading
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks visits the inner solar system every 71 years and will reach its closest to the sun on Sunday (April 21), appearing bright enough to possibly be seen by the naked eye.Continue Reading
On Episode 107 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with journalist Leonard David about NASA’s troubled Mars sample return mission.Continue Reading
Muhammed Faris, who was the first cosmonaut from Syria and second Arab to fly into space, has died at the age of 72.Continue Reading
Lego’s latest Millennium Falcon model certainly isn’t a hunk of junk, as Luke Skywalker famously called the ship in ‘Star Wars: A New Hope.’Continue Reading
As a TV reporter and meteorologist, I experienced some pretty incredible things in my career. But the 2024 total solar eclipse in Dallas left me in awe and with unforgettable emotions like I’ve never seen or felt before.Continue Reading
After several years in development and pre-production at Marvel Studios, The Fantastic Four is finally coming to the big screen in 2025. Here’s all we know.Continue Reading
The Feb. 28 encounter between NASA’s TIMED satellite and a dead Russian spacecraft was even closer than first thought — a mere 33 feet (10 meters) or so, NASA officials said.Continue Reading
NASA’s Juno probe continues to give us more insight into Jupiter and the giant planet’s moons, including Io, the most volcanically active object in the solar system.Continue Reading
NASA is building a moonquake detector for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission, in hopes of learning more about lunar tremors and the internal structure of the moon.Continue Reading
NASA’s history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows.Continue Reading
This NASA space-based observatory video shows ‘Devil Comet’ 12P/Pons-Brooks passing past bright Jupiter while the sun explodes in the distance.Continue Reading
The mission aims to assist the later removal of spunk junk, an issue that threatens the sustainable use of orbital space above the Earth.Continue Reading
Japan will test solar power transmission from space in 2025 with a miniature space-based photoelectric plant that will wirelessly transmit energy from low Earth orbit to Earth.Continue Reading
A pair of small experimental satellites have begun tests related to future lunar communication and navigation services for China’s moon ambitions.Continue Reading
The U.S. could lose its decades-old leadership in space exploration and technology to China.Continue Reading
A review of Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver.”Continue Reading
The quest to bring samples back to Earth from Mars has been met with controversy in some quarters as the threat that ecologically-hungry Martian microbes might pose to our biosphere continues to be a topic of concern.Continue Reading
The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks overnight on April 21-22, but unfortunately a bright moon will make it difficult to spot any ‘shooting stars’ this year.Continue Reading
Rocket Lab has put a recovered Electron first stage back into its production line, a big step toward the company’s first-ever rocket reflight.Continue Reading
The Transformers are returning to cinemas in 2024 with their first animated movie in nearly 40 years. This is the beginning of Cybertron’s end.Continue Reading
CMSA said Shenzhou 18 will be launched at an appropriate time in the near future. However, airspace closure notices indicate launch is currently set for around 9:00 a.m. EDT on April 25 (1300 GMT, or 9:00 p.m. Beijing time).Continue Reading
SpaceX is set to launch its 40th mission of 2024 this evening (April 18), a liftoff that will send yet another batch of the company’s Starlink internet satellites skyward.Continue Reading
An exclusive interview with Zack Snyder about “Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver.”Continue Reading
The search for alien life can now include purple bacteria, thanks to a new catalog of chemical makeup of the lavender-hued organisms.Continue Reading
Russia’s Angara A5 rocket lifted off on April 11, marking the fourth launch of the first rocket developed by Russia since the fall of the USSR in 1991.Continue Reading
‘Devil Comet’ 12P/Pons-Brooks is hurtling toward the sun where it will make its closest approach on April 21. We take a look at whether this celestial vagabond will survive.Continue Reading
Tragically, in an attempt to make the actual plot work, we’re drowned in absurd amounts of technobabble. Once you get past that, it’s actually all right.Continue Reading
Jupiter’s moon Io is the solar system’s most volcanic body thanks to a gravitational tug of war that rages below its surface. But now scientists know the violent moon has always been this way.Continue Reading
Apple TV+ is headed back to the past, and the future, with a fifth season of “For All Mankind” and new spinoff “Star City.” Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are returning to lead both.Continue Reading
The Dragonfly mission is set to launch in July 2028 on a six-year journey to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.Continue Reading
NASA is still studying the performance of the Orion capsule’s heat shield during its reentry to Earth’s atmosphere at the end of the Artemis 1 moon mission in late 2022.Continue Reading
Sweden is the latest nation to sign onto NASA’s Artemis Accords on April 16, following Switzerland’s signing earlier this week.Continue Reading
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team met one last time on Tuesday (April 16) to oversee a transmission from the little rotorcraft.Continue Reading
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 experimental jet has been cleared for supersonic flight by the FAA.Continue Reading
Starting in late 2025, the Vera C. Rubin observatory will image the outskirts of our galaxy in search of dark matter clues.Continue Reading
The discovery of vast subsurface seas on Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas has redefined our view of what an ocean world can be. We may now know how this buried ocean was formed, revealing it is shockingly young.Continue Reading
JWST’s surprise discovery of methane emissions and likely aurorae over a distant brown dwarf could indicate this “failed star” is orbited by an active moon.Continue Reading
Starliner will make its first trip to space with astronauts no earlier than May 6. The historic flight also marks the crewed debut of a new generation of Boeing blue spacesuits.Continue Reading
The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York’s Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology into darkness for 90 seconds, creating a wondrous and memorable totality.Continue Reading
For the chief leader of the SETI Institute, established to search for and understand life beyond Earth, there’s a need to step back and cuddle up to a cup of cosmic reality.Continue Reading
SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast this evening (April 17).Continue Reading
The 2024 solar eclipse, as seen from Indianapolis, connected strangers across a famous racetrack.Continue Reading
A study suggests the ice giants Uranus and Neptune aren’t quite as watery as previously thought. They may also contain huge amounts of frozen methane, potentially solving the puzzle of how they formed.Continue Reading
The unexplained mass of a remarkably massive galaxy suggests that dark matter interacts with itself, according to new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope.Continue Reading
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft moved between buildings at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to get ready for launch. Its first astronaut mission is expected on May 6.Continue Reading
A preview of the “Star Trek: Lower Decks” Season 4 Blu-ray and DVD, which was released today (April 16).Continue Reading
The robotic telescopes of the Virtual Telescope Project have observed a quasar powered by a supermassive black hole 3 billion times as massive as the sun at the very edge of the universeContinue Reading
BepiColombo spotted an outpour of carbon and oxygen atoms in Venus’ fragile magnetic environmentContinue Reading
Switzerland became the 37th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful moon exploration with NASA on April 15, following the inclusion of Greece and Uruguay in February.Continue Reading
To see the premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point 2, a location farther away than anyone has traveled. Or, soon, you can visit Colorado.Continue Reading
The first year of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data seems to show that dark energy is weakening over time, possibly the biggest cosmological discovery for 25 years.Continue Reading
Astronomers have discovered the most massive stellar-born black hole ever seen in the Milky Way, and it lies relatively close to Earth.Continue Reading
The total solar eclipse of 2024 was an epic experience to share with my daughter. It was one part celestial event, one part college prep.Continue Reading
A detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has found evidence that its parent asteroid was altered by water before being smashed apart multiple times.Continue Reading
The small object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was indeed part of a pallet jettisoned from the ISS three years ago, NASA has confirmed.Continue Reading
BepiColombo spotted an outpour of carbon and oxygen atoms in Venus’ fragile magnetic environmentContinue Reading
Boeing Starliner astronauts spent hundreds of hours in simulators preparing for Crew Test Flight, which lifts off May 6. I got a brief taste of what they experienced.Continue Reading
NASA is asking its various research centers as well as private industry for new ideas about how to get Mars samples back to Earth relatively quickly and cost-effectively.Continue Reading
Astronomers have measured the stellar winds of three sun-like stars for the first time, finding that the objects are losing mass at a rate as great as 67 times the speed at which our star sheds matter.Continue Reading
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara missed watching an eclipse from the ISS by days. But she did participate in the 4th all-woman spacewalk, and has a unique story about a baby octopus.Continue Reading
A first-of-its-kind lab demonstration shows how solar power transmission from space could work.Continue Reading
Some black holes are so massive they were likely created as smaller black holes that merged. Maybe we can use such black hole “children” to learn about the black hole “ancestors.”Continue Reading
A trip back to Trill is nice, but we’re starting to wonder if this final season will end up a 10-episode long epilogue after episode 3 of Star Trek: Discovery season 5.Continue Reading
The experimental fusion reactor sustained temperatures of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit for a record-breaking 48 seconds.Continue Reading
The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York’s Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology into darkness for 90 seconds, creating a wondrous and memorable totality.Continue Reading
The Celestron SkyMaster Pro 20×80 binoculars offer a massive aperture, interchangeable eyecups and incredible deep-sky views.Continue Reading
An upcoming NASA mission meant to test new solar sail technology will launch no sooner than April 24, 2024.Continue Reading
NASA’s Dana Weigel has held leadership positions at the agency for 20 years. Now leading the ISS program, she highlighted the outpost’s increasingly commercial focus.Continue Reading
The experimental fusion reactor sustained temperatures of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit for a record-breaking 48 seconds.Continue Reading
A three-legged robot named SpaceHopper could help combat challenges of exploring low-gravity environments, such as asteroids or moons.Continue Reading
On Episode 106 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq take you on a tour of the coolest space places on Earth.Continue Reading
Don’t rule out primordial black holes as dark matter suspects just yet! Particle-sized black holes may resist evaporation, surviving long enough to account for the universe’s most mysterious stuff.Continue Reading
The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York’s Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology into darkness for 90 seconds, creating a wondrous and memorable totality.Continue Reading
The Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft began testing on April 10 in an altitude chamber at NASA. The spacecraft will bring four astronauts around the moon no earlier than 2025.Continue Reading
To test its autonomous software, the JUICE mission team pretended to fly the spacecraft past Jupiter’s fourth moon, and passed the exam with flying colors.Continue Reading
Just weeks after Starship first reached orbital speed during a spaceflight in March, SpaceX founder Elon Musk outlined what the company wants to do with future spacecraft for Mars missions.Continue Reading
Vulcan, United Launch Alliance’s new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of being exposed to gamma rays or the bite of a radioactive spider, but it does have an origin story worthy of a comic book.Continue Reading
CNN’s space documentary, “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” reaches its finale on April 14. You can watch an exclusive clip now.Continue Reading
Watching the new trailer for the upcoming movie “Fly Me to the Moon” might leave you thinking that it is an entire work of fiction. And for the most part, you would be correct.Continue Reading
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