SpaceX Is Going To Launch The Massive Falcon Heavy Rocket This Weekend... Maybe
With all the hype surrounding the successful launch, docking, and return of the Crew Dragon capsule, and the upcoming tests of the Starhopper, you'd be…
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Elon Musk Boasts About A 'Major Improvement' In Crew Dragon's Reusability
SpaceX has made a name for itself in the spaceflight industry by rapidly developing its own rocket technology and providing reliable ways for its clients…
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Boeing's Starliner Is Officially Delayed, Again
It hasn't been a great year thus far for Boeing. The company has been dealing with a whole bunch of its commercial planes being grounded…
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We're Probably About To See The First-Ever Photograph Of A Black Hole
Black holes are so strange that they're kind of hard to wrap your brain around. They're super-dense objects with gravitational pull so strong that nothing…
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India Shot A Missile At A Satellite And Now The Debris Might Hit The International Space Station
You can't exactly see it from down here on Earth, but there's a whole lot of junk floating around in the space around our planet.…
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NASA Discovers Saturn's Moons Are Caked In Ring Dust
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has long since bitten the proverbial dust, but data it sent back years ago is now revealing how actual dust affects some…
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Student Astronomer Spots Two New Planets With The Help Of AI
Discovering planets that nobody has ever seen before is even harder than it sounds. Space telescopes from NASA and other scientific bodies have gathered an…
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This Massive Antenna Is Going To Help NASA Learn A Lot About Europa
NASA has spent decades studying many of the planets in our solar system up close. Probes like Juno and Cassini have taught us a lot…
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Watch A Meteor Light Up The Night Sky Over Florida
If you happened to be in certain part of Florida or Georgia on Saturday — and also happened to be outside after dark and looking…
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SpaceX Is Inching Closer To Launching Its Starhopper For The First Time
After making big waves earlier this month with the successful launch, docking, and return flight of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX has been relatively quiet…
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Watch NASA Astronauts Live On A Spacewalk Outside The ISS
NASA was forced to cancel a planned all-female spacewalk this week, replacing astronaut Anne McClain with fellow ISS resident Nick Hague due to a lack…
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NASA's Hubble Spotted An Asteroid Spinning So Fast It's Self-Destructing
When you imagine an asteroid cruising through the solar system you probably think of it as a static object, not doing much beyond speeding along…
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NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Just Spotted A Brand New 'Hot Saturn'
NASA TESS spacecraft has been in space for almost a year now, and it powerful imaging tools are definitely being put to work. As we…
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Trump Desperately Wants The US In Another Space Race That Simply Doesn't Exist
Donald Trump threw NASA for a loop shortly after taking office when he directed them to find a way to get humans back on the…
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Hubble Discovers A Mysterious Dark Spot On Neptune, And It's Getting Bigger
The mighty Jupiter gets a lot of attention for its constantly-shifting face, but it's not the only planet in our solar system with some serious…
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Spots A Bed Of Earth-Like Pebbles
Most of the views of Mars we've seen have come from NASA's trusty rovers, and while they've shown us some pretty stunning stuff, you can…
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NASA Forced To Cancel First All-Female Spacewalk In History Over Wardrobe Malfunction
For NASA, March 29th was going to be a history-making day at the International Space Station, with the first all-female spacewalk in human history. Astronauts…
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NASA And ESA Are Paying Volunteers To Lie In Bed For 60 Days To Test Artificial Gravity
Regardless of what your own personal idea of a dream job might be, you have to admit that being paid to lounge around in bed…
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This Incredible NASA Snapshot Reminds Us How Gorgeous Jupiter Really Is
Jupiter, the "king" of planets in our solar system, is a hostile place you definitely wouldn't want to visit. The gas giant is a swirling…
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Nobody Knows If NASA's OSIRIS-REx Can Pull Off Its Daring Asteroid-Sampling Maneuver
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first arrived at the large space rock known as Bennu late last year, and it's spent the first few months of 2019…
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Watch Two NASA Astronauts Make Repairs Outside The International Space Station Live
There's been a lot of anticipation for the first all-female spacewalk which is rapidly approaching on March 29th, but before that historic adventure happens there's…
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Japanese Scientists Think They Know Where The Ryugu Asteroid Came From
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been hanging around the asteroid known as Ryugu for several months now. It first arrived in late 2018 and, in February,…
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Space Makes Your Herpes Flare Up, Apparently
Riding into space on the top of a rocket is something that very few people ever get the opportunity to do. It's a dangerous journey,…
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Japan Is Going To Blast A Crater In An Asteroid For Science
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is doing some big things during its time at the asteroid known as Ryugu. JAXA, Japan's space program, arrived at the space…
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A Huge Fireball Exploded In The Earth's Atmosphere And Almost No One Noticed
When a space rock comes speeding down towards Earth it usually makes headlines for obvious reasons. Even smaller objects that appear in our sky have…
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This Is What It Looks Like When Two Galaxies Collide
As Earthlings, the kind of space collision we typically fear the most is one between an asteroid and our home planet. Depending on the size…
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Crew Of Last Year's Failed Soyuz Rocket Will Try Again Tomorrow
It seems like only yesterday the world watched as a Russian Soyuz rocket experienced a last-second launch abort that sent NASA astronaut Nick Hague and…
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