Space

Today (Nov. 5), Space Chat will explore what’s new in space, including new climate science, SpaceX’s new astronaut launch and a seriously powerful solar storm.

Uranus, the remote seventh planet from the Sun and the third-largest planet overall, comes to opposition on the night of 4/5 November, when it can be easily found through a pair of humble 10 x 50 binoculars.

China launched two classified military satellites Wednesday on top of a Long March 2C rocket augmented by a restartable upper stage.

NASA was notified Thursday that the U.S. Court of Federal Claims denied Blue Origin’s bid protest, upholding NASA’s selection of SpaceX to develop and demonstrate a modern human lunar lander.

Boeing has the green light to launch a planned broadband constellation that will place 147 satellites in orbit.

A 250-light-year-wide superbubble in an emission nebular hints at unseen processes at work to carve out a void in glowing clouds of hydrogen gas an dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

NASA will provide live coverage of its Spaceflight for Everybody virtual symposium, an event aimed at communicating the current state of NASA spaceflight health knowledge.

While NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has faced countless obstacles and delays in its more than decade in the making, the observatory’s most difficult days lie ahead in the coming months.

Engineers are troubleshooting command and data timing issues aboard the Hubble Space Telescope that have temporarily knocked the observatory out of action.

The planned launch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Wednesday carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station has been delayed to at least Saturday because of a “minor medical issue” with one of the crew members, NASA announced Monday.