SpaceX launches a record 143 satellites on one rocket, aces landing By Amy Thompson SpaceX successfully launched an ambitious rideshare mission as one of its veteran rockets hoisted a record 143 small satellites into space before nailing a landing at sea.
On This Day in Space! Jan. 24, 1986: Voyager 2 flies past Uranus By Hanneke Weitering On January 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!
Apollo landers, Neil Armstrong’s bootprint and other human artifacts on Moon officially protected by new US law By Michelle L.D. Hanlon It’s hard to care about bootprints sunk in soil 238,900 miles away as humanity suffers the combined burden of an unforgiving virus and a political unease.
South African astronomy has a long, rich history of discovery — and a promising future By Ian Glass The South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town is the oldest permanent observatory in the southern hemisphere: it turned 200 in 2020.
Wormholes may be lurking in the universe — and new studies are proposing ways of finding them By Andreea Font Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time.
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)
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. 24, 1986: Voyager 2 flies past Uranus By Hanneke Weitering On January 24, 1986, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!
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)
South African astronomy has a long, rich history of discovery — and a promising future By Ian Glass The South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town is the oldest permanent observatory in the southern hemisphere: it turned 200 in 2020.
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.
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.
