SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket this morning in a historic flight that saw the first reuse of booster rockets for the Falcon Heavy, marking…
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A false-color, near infrared view of Titan’s northern hemisphere collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft showing the moon’s seas and lakes. Orange areas near some of…
Last night, the extremely well received “Apollo 11” documentary premiered on television on CNN. It will air again on the news network on June 29…
It has become something of a trope thanks to Hollywood, science fiction writers, and fans of doomsday scenarios alike. A sizeable comet or asteroid is…
An artist’s impression of a Gamma Ray Burst jet over time, and the small patches of magnetic fields present, as revealed by new research. Credit…
In new samples taken on Mars last week, NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected a high level of methane in the air, offering new evidence of…
SpaceX is preparing for the third-ever launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket. The mission is called Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) and it is set to…
There is no shortage of people today who have an opinion on whether or not humans should colonize Mars. On the pro side, there are…
A graduate student, Edward Molter, was taking heat view readings of Uranus when he was surprised to see the bright glow of its rings. “I…
An artist’s depiction of the stellar system Kepler-9 and two of its planets. Astronomers have confirmed the very low densities of two of Kepler-9’s planets…
The CARMENES survey team, a huge group of international astronomers, is searching for exoplanets near distant stars’ habitable zones. They may have just discovered the…
“Forty years ago, my professor Carl Sagan shared his dream of using solar sail spacecraft to explore the cosmos,” said Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye in…
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) melted a dense satellite part inside a plasma wind tunnel and released it via video. The purpose was…
The European Space Agency is no less than NASA when it comes to announcing groundbreaking new missions. Agency has announced a new mission to explore…
In a surprising last-minute move, Space X has moved Falcon Heavy Flight 3’s center core landing on the drone ship, Of Course I Still Love…
Artist conception of gas streams (blue) feeding a galactic disk. The inflow fuels new star formation, and because the infalling gas is spinning, the size…
Boeing is moving its Space and Launch headquarters to Titusville, Florida ahead of the completion and first launch of its Starliner spacecraft, planned for later…
NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is one surefire way spacecraft could safely and autonomously fly themselves to destinations like the Moon and Mars. Before the…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured an incredible new image of the asteroid Bennu last week at a distance of only 0.4 miles, revealing details of the…
In its final year, the Cassini space probe dove into the space between Saturn and its rings. Now, data sent back to Earth has been…