Space

The first operational astronaut crew to launch into space on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will arrive at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center today (Nov. 8) ahead of their Nov. 14 launch and you can watch it all live. 

The largest stars in the universe tend to be loners, and new research points to the reason why. Although massive stars are born in clusters of many smaller brethren, they quickly get kicked out, forced to spend their lives alone.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

The first operational astronaut crew to launch into space on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will arrive at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center today (Nov. 8) ahead of their Nov. 14 launch and you can watch it all live. 

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), will commence operations sometime next year. Not wanting to let a perfectly good acronym go to waste, its first campaign will be known as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). This ten-year survey will study everything […]

Although Mars is much smaller than Earth, it has two moons. Deimos and Phobos were probably once asteroids that were captured by the gravity of Mars. The red planet has also captured nine other small bodies. These asteroids don’t orbit Mars directly, but instead, orbit gravitationally stable points on either […]

Have you ever watched “Space 1999”? No? You really should.

On Nov. 7, 1996, NASA launched its Mars Global Surveyor mission. This was the first mission NASA sent to Mars in almost 20 years!