Why the ‘race for space’ has only just begun
On May 2, 1945, just a few days before World War II ended and two days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Nazi scientist ...
Space Billionaires Count Down To Their Rocket Race To The Moon
Launch licenses the FAA just issued to Blue Origin and SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and ...
NASA's LEXI will provide X-ray vision of Earth's magnetosphere
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images ...
NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
Astronaut’s first photo of 2025 is a real stunner
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has started 2025 as he means to go on, with yet another stunning photograph from the space station.
Watch Bezos’ new super rocket blast its engines. It's about to launch.
Years in the making, the commercial rocket is on the verge of its maiden flight.
Video of Google Earth 'Sea Monster' Is Obvious Hoax
A video shared on social media in June 2024 claimed to depict a sea serpent monster known as the "leviathan." The clip showed ...
The Growing Human Footprint on Earth, as Seen from Space
Last year saw warming reach startling new highs, with record heat fueling extreme weather around the world. As farms and ...
NASA’s InSight Lander Fades Into Mars Dust: Final Images Unveiled
NASA’s retired InSight lander, now covered in Martian dust, continues to offer insights into Mars through images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Over its four-year mission, InSight ...
What are stars made of? A century ago, this woman found out—and changed physics forever
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...
Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System
Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.
NASA’s Breakthrough Discovery Explains Vesta’s Mysterious Gullies
Cratered surfaces across our solar system reveal signs of ancient impacts, but mysterious gullies on Vesta might have formed through sudden brine flows triggered by meteoroid impacts. Recent ...