In four years, NASA plans to return astronauts to the Moon as part of Project Artemis. To ensure the success of this endeavor, as well as the creation of a program of sustainable lunar exploration by the end of the decade, NASA has partnered with multiple entities in the commercial […]
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The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week! Here’s what to expect.
On a night this past summer, soon after sunset, a number of people gathered at a little-league field, not far from my home, eagerly awaiting nightfall and the appearance of the stars. We had also gathered there because there wasn’t much in the way of light pollution and we were […]
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On This Day in Space: Oct. 18, 1963: Félicette Becomes the 1st Cat in Space! >^..^
On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French “catstronaut” who became the first and only feline to fly to space.
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13 Out of This World Facts About Spacesuits That You Should Know
Spacesuits fascinated every child from every corner of the world. Future space technologies are causing spacesuits to evolve with some impressive technology.
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NASA’s Updates on the Golden House Satellite, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
The satellite is the latest in the Jason series of satellites for examining our oceans.
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We actually don’t know how fast the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is spinning but there might be a way to find out
Unless Einstein is wrong, a black hole is defined by three properties: mass, spin, and electric charge. The charge of a black hole should be nearly zero since the matter captured by a black hole is electrically neutral. The mass of a black hole determines the size of its event […]
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Watch Venus glide by in this serene video from the BepiColombo spacecraft’s flyby
A European-Japanese spacecraft just flew by Venus on its long, winding road to Mercury, snapping some stellar views along the way.