Earth may not have needed asteroid and comet strikes to fill its oceans, a new study reports.
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NASA event marks 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights
NASA commemorated the 100th anniversary of when some American women won the right to vote by celebrating today’s female pioneers, who are spreading their wings far into space.
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UAE’s Hope Probe Finally Spotted Mars En Route to the Red Planet
The spacecraft is one fifth of its way, and sent back some pics of Mars.
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Image: Sensing the moon
A new sensor to identify lunar volatiles is being assembled in a clean room at The Open University, UK ahead of some exciting missions to the moon.
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Gas reaches young stars along magnetic field lines
Astronomers have used the GRAVITY instrument to study the immediate vicinity of a young star in more detail than ever before. Their observations confirm a thirty-year-old theory about the growth of young stars: the magnetic field produced by the star itself directs material from a surrounding accretion disk of gas […]
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Three big threats to satellites — and what to do about them (op-ed)
Herbert O. Funsten is a space scientist and leader of the Intelligence and Space Research division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
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Submarine could explore seas of huge Saturn moon Titan
A submarine could explore alien seas just a few decades from now.
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A huge Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch a new US spy satellite overnight. Here’s how to watch.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up to launch its mightiest candle in the fleet of rockets: the Delta IV Heavy. The behemoth is set to blast off on Thursday (Aug. 27) at 2:12 a.m. EDT (0612 GMT), carrying with it a satellite for the National […]
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Watch live tonight! Delta IV Heavy rocket to launch US spy satellite
There’s some spaceflight action on tap early Thursday morning (Aug. 27). A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch the NROL-44 spy satellite at 2:12 a.m. EDT (0612 GMT).