Space

We are living in a golden age of discovery when it comes to our understanding of the cosmos. Although observing with your telescope can sometimes feel like a solitary activity, there’s more going on in the science and hobby of astronomy than ever before, and you can be a part […]

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission will deliver the agency’s first asteroid sample collected in space to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Media interested in covering the landing, as well as mission activities leading up to and following the return, are invited to […]

The final liftoff of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket has been retargeted for July 4, three weeks later than originally planned.

Another batch of 47 Starlink internet satellites rode a SpaceX rocket into orbit early Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, continuing the company’s record flight rate with another Falcon 9 launch and landing. Liftoff occurred at 12:19 a.m. PDT (3:19 a.m. EDT; 0719 UTC).

In a few billion years, our aging sun will run out of fuel and begin to swell, eventually engulfing Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth itself. Known as the red giant phase, this is a normal step in a mid-sized star’s life cycle, when it swells to hundreds of times its […]

NASA and the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday strengthening the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts to improve agricultural and Earth science research, technology, agricultural management, and the application of science data and models to agricultural decision making.

A new “Firefly: The Fall Guys” limited comic series is coming in September from Boom! Studios, returning the crew of the Serenity for more gun-slinging adventures in deep space.

The second-to-last flight of United Launch Alliance’s Delta rocket was set to lift off from Cape Canaveral early Wednesday on a mission to deliver a top secret spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. government, but officials scrubbed the launch attempt due to a problem with a ground systems pneumatics […]

Astronomers have captured their second-ever glimpse into a rare celestial object: a white dwarf pulsar. Pulsars are typically envisioned as spinning neutron stars — a type of stellar remnant left by only massive stars. Despite white dwarfs being the most common stellar fossils, created by Sun-like and smaller stars, pulsar […]

During a ceremony at the Ecuador embassy in Washington on Wednesday, Ecuador became the 26th country to sign the Artemis Accords. Karen Feldstein, NASA associate administrator for International and Interagency Relations, participated in the signing ceremony for the agency, and Gustavo Manrique Miranda, Ecuador’s foreign affairs minister, signed on