SpaceX Secures $1.9 Billion, Company’s Largest Funding Round Ever
SpaceX has secured a $1.9 billion funding round after achieving a $46-billion valuation.
Watch live today! Japan’s final HTV cargo ship to leave space station
Editor’s note: Looking for today’s SpaceX Starlink satellite launch? See our video recap and launch story here.
NASA watches as weird ‘dent’ in Earth’s magnetic field splits in two
There’s something very strange happening high above South America and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, and NASA is on the case.
SpaceX’s 100th Launch Breaks Rocket Reusability Record, 11th Starlink Mission
SpaceX accomplished its 100th launch, the 11th Starlink mission and sixth reuse for a Falcon 9.
Indian astronomers investigate open cluster Czernik 3
A team of astronomers from India has performed deep near-infrared photometric observations of an open cluster known as Czernik 3. The study provides important information about the properties of Czernik 3, suggesting that it is a disintegrating old open cluster. The research is available in a paper published August 7 […]
100 cool worlds found near the Sun
How complete is our census of the Sun’s closest neighbors? Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered roughly 100 cool worlds near the Sun—objects more massive than planets but lighter than stars, known as brown dwarfs.