NASA will provide live coverage of a spacewalk on Thursday, July 21, by a Russian cosmonaut and an ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut to continue outfitting the European robotic arm on the International Space Station’s Nauka laboratory.
To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets — and the James Webb Space Telescope just proved it’s possible to do so
Scientists who study exoplanets explain how the James Webb Space Telescope will study exoplanet atmospheres.
Rocket Lab’s next launch for the NRO postponed for software updates
Rocket Lab’s next mission for the National Reconnaissance Office — the second of two back-to-back launches for the U.S. spy satellite agency — has been postponed to complete a software update on the classified payload, the NRO said Monday.
Catch Pluto at its best during opposition this week
The dwarf planet reaches opposition the night of July 19/20. Here’s what you need to know to spot it.
Black holes may die differently than we thought
New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.
SpaceX deploys 53 more Starlink satellites on record-tying 31st launch of the year
Fifty-three more Starlink internet satellites thundered into orbit from Cape Canaveral atop a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday on SpaceX’s 31st launch of the year, tying the company’s number of missions for all of 2021 and maintaining a pace of one flight per week.
101 Must-See Cosmic Objects: The Bubble Nebula
William Herschel first observed NGC 7635 in 1787 as a glow around the magnitude 8.7 star SAO 20575 (cataloged earlier as BD+60°2522). In a telescope, the Bubble Nebula looks more like a comma because the full extent of its spherical shell is so faint that it was only discovered through […]
Live coverage: SpaceX’s latest Starlink launch successful
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:20 a.m. EDT (1420 GMT) Sunday with 53 more Starlink internet satellites. The mission marks SpaceX’s fourth launch in 10 days, and SpaceX’s 31st launch of 2022, tying the record number of Falcon 9 missions in a […]
SpaceX launched and landed a Falcon 9 rocket on record-tying 13th mission
SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets for a record-tying 13th time on Sunday morning (July 17).
SpaceX cargo ship delivers dust storm instrument to International Space Station
A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule loaded with more than 5,800 pounds of supplies and experiments docked with the International Space Station Saturday, delivering a NASA instrument to study the mineral content of dust storms and several small CubeSats slated for deployment from the complex.