A small telescope operating in the near-space environment brings sharp vision and a wide field of view to the search for subtle signs of dark matter.
The Sky This Week: The Lyrid meteor shower peaks
Be on the lookout for Lyrids as the Moon makes its way across the sky from April 21 to 28.
Pennsylvania Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station
Students from North Allegheny School District in McCandless, Pennsylvania, will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
‘Star Trek: Picard’ season 3 episode 10 is a fun but fundamentally flawed series finale
Every single stop was pulled out for the “Star Trek: Picard’” season 3 finale and what we ultimately got is a massive, magnificent mess.
Live coverage: SpaceX’s Starship rocket explodes on test flight from Texas
SpaceX launched the first full-scale Starship and Super Heavy rocket from South Texas at 8:33 a.m. CDT (9:33 a.m. EDT; 1333 UTC Thursday). The nearly 40-story-tall rocket, the largest ever built, lifted off from the Starbase launch complex and flew downrange before veering out of control and exploding about four […]
The many personalities of NASA’s Mars rovers
The first explorers of Mars include the rich and entitled, the bratty kids, and the selfie-obsessed social media sensations. Did you think we meant humans?
NASA Creates In-Space Servicing, Assembly, Manufacturing Consortium
NASA announced Wednesday a new consortium focused on making in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities a routine part of space architectures and mission lifecycles.
See dwarf planet Haumea at its closest to Earth in 285 years tonight
Dwarf planet Haumea reaches both opposition and perigee on April 20, making this a prime opportunity to see the dwarf planet in the night sky.
SpaceX resumes launching upgraded Starlink satellites
SpaceX resumed launches of upgraded second-generation Starlink internet satellites Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, nearly two months after some spacecraft in the first batch of larger, more capable “Starlink V2 Mini” satellites ran into problems soon after liftoff.
Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think
Calculating when and where exactly we can watch an eclipse in its full glory can be surprisingly hard.