Space

We take a look at Space X’s most important achievements on their road to taking humans to Mars.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s historic six-time flier — a Falcon 9 rocket first stage designated B1049 — returned to Florida’s Port Canaveral Friday (Aug. 21), after delivering a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit earlier this week. 

Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner has captured some truly amazing views of Earth from above as seen from the International Space Station, but his latest video of auroras included an unexpected surprise: five bright lights on the horizon that he dubbed ‘space guests.’ 

Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light. But they can also emit matter in the form of plasma jets—a kind of plasma beam that is ejected from […]

The comet was captured at a distance of 27 million miles from the Sun.

To the owner of a small telescope the moon is more interesting than anything else in the sky, because it’s close enough to be seen really well. Even binoculars will show features on its surface. But you don’t need a telescope to enjoy the moon. Even a casual glance at […]

India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter has finished one year and 4,400 trips around the moon — and the spacecraft is just getting started, Indian space agency officials said Thursday (Aug. 20).

Northrop Grumman statement: “We will determine next steps once the debriefing process concludes.”

When astronauts return to the Moon in the next few years (as part of Project Artemis) they will be scouting locations and resources around the South Pole-Aitken Basin that will eventually help them to stay there. In this cratered, permanently-shadowed region, water ice has been found in abundance, which could […]

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The new images of the comet were taken on 8 August and feature the visitor’s coma, the fine shell that […]