SpaceX delays launch of 143 satellites on a single rocket due to bad weather By Meghan Bartels SpaceX called off the launch of a 143 satellites on a single Falcon 9 rocket due to bad weather at its Florida launch site Saturday (Jan. 23)
On This Day in Space! Jan. 23, 1942: NASA's Glenn Research Center is founded By Hanneke Weitering Happy birthday, Glenn Research Center! See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!
Largest sea on Saturn's mysterious moon Titan could be more than 1,000 feet deep By Elizabeth Howell Data from one of Cassini's last flybys of Titan probed the depths of Kraken Mare to better understand the moon's alien chemistry.
How to see the 'Great Hexagon' of bright winter stars this weekend By Joe Rao Eight bright stars dominate our current winter sky. Depending on how you look at them, you might see a graceful arc, a hexagon or a giant "G."
Warm up with this cozy image of a hot spot on Jupiter By Elizabeth Howell A new composite image of Jupiter's atmosphere shows a hot spot glowing brightly in infrared wavelengths.
Watch live Sunday: SpaceX launching 143 satellites on Transporter-1 mission By Space.com Staff A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter-1 rideshare mission with dozens of satellites from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, Jan. 23, at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT). Watch it live!
Dawn Aerospace aims to launch New Zealand's 1st space plane from a conventional airport By Elizabeth Howell Dawn Aerospace has received approval to fly a suborbital space plane from a conventional airport in New Zealand.
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On This Day in Space! Jan. 23, 1942: NASA's Glenn Research Center is founded By Hanneke Weitering Happy birthday, Glenn Research Center! See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!
Watch live Sunday: SpaceX launching 143 satellites on Transporter-1 mission By Space.com Staff A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter-1 rideshare mission with dozens of satellites from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, Jan. 23, at 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT). Watch it live!
The top space stories of the week! By Doris Elin Urrutia These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.
Mystery particle may explain extreme X-rays shooting from the 'Magnificent 7' stars By Stephanie Pappas Particles called axions may be the reason the 'Magnificent 7' cluster of neutron stars emits extreme X-rays.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance lands on the Red Planet in less than a month! By Mike Wall The car-size Perseverance rover, the core of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, will land Feb. 18, kicking off a new era of Red Planet exploration.
CIA releases entire collection of UFO-related documents to truth-seeking website By Brandon Specktor The CIA just turned over 2,700 pages of UFO-related material to The Black Vault, a free repository of UFO records online.
An alien machine already visited us, Harvard astrophysicist still contends By Rafi Letzter Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has reignited a debate about whether alien life can explain an object that visited the solar system in 2017 in a scathing new book.
How to see the 'Great Hexagon' of bright winter stars this weekend By Joe Rao Eight bright stars dominate our current winter sky. Depending on how you look at them, you might see a graceful arc, a hexagon or a giant "G."
You can see Uranus, Mars and the moon get close in a rare night sky sight tonight By Chelsea Gohd Look up tonight (Jan. 21) to see Uranus and Mars nestled together in the night sky.
This tiny comet photobombed the total solar eclipse of 2020 By Kasandra Brabaw Looking closely at eclipse images, stargazers can spot a newfound Kreutz sungrazer comet that zoomed by the Sun during Chile and Argentina's solar eclipse.
Bernie Sanders in space! These inauguration mitten memes are out of this world By Hanneke Weitering After casually stopping by President Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday (Jan. 20), Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont set out on a tour of the universe — sort of.
Exclusive: Avasarala and Bobbie sink deeper into a black market weapons ring in 'The Expanse #2' By Jeff Spry Writer Corrina Bechko and artist Alejandro Aragon fill in the gaps between Season 4 and Season 5 of "The Expanse" with Boom! Studios.
Kerbal Space Program 2 will launch Kerbonauts with wild new hairdos and emotions By Elizabeth Howell The developers of the popular "Kerbal Space Program" from Private Division and Intercept Games revealed the true nature of their astronauts (Kerbals) in a recent YouTube video.
