Watch live Thursday! Soyuz rocket to launch new space station crew By Space.com Staff A Soyuz rocket will launch a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station on April 9, 2020. Here's how to watch live!
You can watch 3 astronauts launch to the space station early Thursday. Here's how. By Mike Wall Three people will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) in the predawn hours Thursday (April 9), and you can watch their departure from Earth live.
We're T-minus 4 years to the next Great American Solar Eclipse in 2024 By Joe Rao The Great North American Solar Eclipse is coming.
'Super Pink Moon,' the biggest & brightest of 2020, stuns skywatchers around the world (photos) By Chelsea Gohd The "Super Pink Moon" on April 7 was the biggest and brightest moon of the year.
Behold! See the Hubble telescope's iconic 'Pillars of Creation' view in infrared By Chelsea Gohd Scientists have revisited one of the most iconic images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing incredible details in infrared light.
This weird black hole is bending light back on itself like a boomerang By Meghan Bartels For decades, scientists have suspected that some of the light that escapes from around a massive black hole nearly doesn't make it — and now, they've finally seen it happen.
Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, tap asteroid resources By Mike Wall The lunar resources that will help the United States establish a long-term human presence on and around the moon are there for the taking, the White House believes.
Private companies find role in developing nuclear power for space travel By JoAnna Wendel The private sector wants to bring nuclear power to space to enable faster and more efficient space travel.
Watch live Thursday! Soyuz rocket to launch new space station crew By Space.com Staff A Soyuz rocket will launch a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station on April 9, 2020. Here's how to watch live!
You can watch 3 astronauts launch to the space station early Thursday. Here's how. By Mike Wall Three people will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) in the predawn hours Thursday (April 9), and you can watch their departure from Earth live.
Could Mars samples brought to Earth pose a threat to our planet? What the coronavirus (and 'Andromeda Strain') can teach us. By Leonard David NASA and the European Space Agency plan to haul pristine Mars samples to Earth in the near future. Should we worry about a possible 'Andromeda Strain' scenario?
100 days from launch: NASA's Mars rover Perseverance gets its wheels, parachute By Mike Wall Percy will be leaving Earth before you know it.
Could Mars samples brought to Earth pose a threat to our planet? What the coronavirus (and 'Andromeda Strain') can teach us. By Leonard David NASA and the European Space Agency plan to haul pristine Mars samples to Earth in the near future. Should we worry about a possible 'Andromeda Strain' scenario?
Here's how Europe's JUICE spacecraft will look for alien oceans By Meghan Bartels One of the top priorities for scientists looking to find life beyond Earth is determining which icy worlds in the outer solar system hide massive global oceans under their frozen surfaces.
Next stop, Enceladus? Scientists make their case for a mission to Saturn's icy moon By Meghan Bartels NASA is headed to Saturn's largest moon, Titan — but some scientists hope to convince the agency to send another mission to Titan's neighbor, Enceladus, to look for signs of life.
We're T-minus 4 years to the next Great American Solar Eclipse in 2024 By Joe Rao The Great North American Solar Eclipse is coming.
Watch live tonight! Slooh webcasts the 'Super Pink Moon' @ 7:30 pm ET By Space.com Staff Astronomers with the Slooh online observatory will stream live views of the "Super Pink Moon" in a free webcast today (April 7) at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT). Watch it live here!
Here's the best way to enjoy the 'Super Pink Moon,' according to a NASA astronomer By Chelsea Gohd Tonight (April 7), the moon will be at its brightest and largest for the whole year during the "Super Pink Moon."
Committee waves off landing Apollo lunar module on new $1 coin By Robert Z. Pearlman A proposal to land the Apollo lunar module on the reverse side of a new $1 coin has been waved off by the committees reviewing the design.
The spaceship crash survival game 'Symmetry' is free right now on GOG By Tariq Malik "Symmetry," a spaceship crash survival game from 2018, is free on the GOG website through April 5 at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
What would Picard do? Investigating disease outbreaks in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' By Chelsea Gohd We turn to examples in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," to remember how Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise dealt with the issue of outbreak.
