Space

Astronomers have found what amounts to a two-faced white dwarf with one side dominated by hydrogen and the other by helium in what could be a transition from one phase to another.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is lifted off Wednesday night/Thursday morning carrying the first batch of second-generation Starlink satellites to be lofted from the West Coast. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base occurred at 9:09 p.m. PDT (1209 a.m. EDT / 0409 UTC July […]

Released after three weeks in quarantine, the Apollo 11 astronauts enjoyed ticker tape parades in New York (pictured), Chicago, and Los Angeles. NASA The flight of Apollo 11, the mission chosen to attempt the first lunar landing, was scheduled to launch July 16, 1969. After the success of Apollo 10, […]

The grandfather of pop culture conventions is a somewhat scaled-down affair this year, for a variety of reasons.

Trojan planets – two worlds sharing the same orbit around their star – are possible in theory, but none have been found. Now, the ALMA radio telescope array may have done just that.

The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first batch of second-generation Starlink satellites to be lofted from the West Coast was aborted in the final seconds of the countdown.

A small, faint brown dwarf located 37 light-years from Earth is the coldest on record to produce radio waves. Usually, ultracool brown dwarfs do not produce radio emissions because they do not possess magnetic fields to generate it. The new study, published July 13 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, may assist […]

La dirección de la NASA, incluidos expertos en clima entre los que figura un hispanohablante, estará disponible a las 4 p.m. EDT del jueves 20 de julio en la sede de la agencia en Washington para hacer balance de los recientes fenómenos meteorológicos extremos y discutir cómo la investigación y […]

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed carbon dust in distant and early galaxies in a discovery that could challenge theories regarding the formation of cosmic dust in the infant universe.

Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket, carrying seven small satellites, from its launch site on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand at 9:27 p.m. EDT (0127 UTC). The first stage of the Electron rocket parachuted into the ocean for recovery as part of Rocket Lab’s efforts to reuse the rocket.