Space

SpaceX is “really making progress” with Starship production despite test flight delays, the company’s CEO Elon Musk said Monday (Aug. 31), according to Space News.

A crowded orbit is a dangerous orbit.

Mars is often a very dynamic place due to its atmosphere and how it interacts with the surface. At present, we’re in the “windy season” in Gale crater. This means that we’re seeing increased aeolian (meaning “related to the wind”) activity at the surface. In recent sols, we’ve taken Mastcam […]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) astronomers have detected 18 very metal-poor stars in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. They found that one of the stars from the sample has an extremely low metallicity, slightly below -3.0. The study was reported in a paper published August 22 on the arXiv preprint repository.

The Hubble telescope snapped some images that show just how massive it is.

Believe it or not there are some people out there who think traditional rocket science is too easy and want more of a challenge.  A group at the University of Illinois (UI) decided to up the difficulty a bit by attempting to design a rocket engine that is capable of […]

See what’s up in the night sky for September 2020, including stargazing events and the moon’s phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

Ozone pollution has increased across the Northern Hemisphere over the past 20 years, researchers have found in a new study — the first study to use ozone data collected by commercial aircraft. 

Galactic halos are both more massive and more complicated than scientists realized, according to new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.