A tropical storm barreling towards the Florida peninsula caused United Launch Alliance (ULA) to stand down from an Atlas 5 launch planned for Tuesday on a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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New Horizons’ Kuiper Belt mission may be changing
The New Horizons mission needs your help. This highly successful endeavor, which has sent home unprecedented views of the most distant worlds we’ve ever seen, is currently slated for a big change. At the end of September 2024, NASA is planning to restructure the mission and its team, adjusting its […]
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NASA invita a hispanohablantes a enviar sus nombres en Europa Clipper
La NASA ha lanzado un nuevo sitio web en español para invitar al público a enviar sus nombres a bordo de Europa Clipper, una misión que iniciará su viaje a la luna de Júpiter Europa en octubre de 2024. Este nuevo sitio web forma parte de una campaña de la […]
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Get a sneak peek at new ‘Star Wars’ short story collection, ‘From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi’
An exclusive excerpt from the short story collection “From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi.”
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Cygnus’ Crescent rides high on summer evenings
Superb Cygnus (the Swan) owns the summer nights. It is a constellation overloaded with bright deep-sky objects, including some exceptional nebulae.
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International crew arrive at space station aboard SpaceX Dragon Endurance
A SpaceX Crew Dragon ferry ship docked at the International Space Station Sunday after a 29-hour rendezvous, bringing four fresh crew members to the lab to replace four others wrapping up a six-month stay in orbit.
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The mystery of dark matter: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher
Dark matter is an invisible and mysterious form of matter that has enormous implications for the ultimate fate of our universe. Dark matter was posited by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in the 1930 when he studied star motions in the Sun’s neighborhood. Because the galaxy was not flying apart, he […]
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 takes the moon’s temperature near lunar south pole for 1st time
Chandrayaan-3 creates first temperature profile near the moon’s south pole; ISRO offers more updates on the historic lunar mission.
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Meet Crew 7: A truly international space mission
Dragon Endurance features crew members representing four different nations. The mission is commanded by NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli. The pilot is the European Space Agency’s Andreas Mogensen from Denmark. Mission specialists are Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.
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New ‘Starfield’ live-action trailer slingshots fans straight into the cosmos (video)
Bethesda Studios and Microsoft share a new live-action “Starfield” trailer from Gamescon 2023.