Watch live tonight: Perseid meteor shower webcasts By Space.com Staff See live views of the Perseid meteor shower beginning at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT).
Watch live: Slooh livestreams the Perseid meteor shower Wednesday @ 7 pm ET By Space.com Staff Astronomers with the Slooh online observatory will host a free webcast of the annual Perseid meteor shower on Wednesday (Aug. 12) at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Watch it live here!
Russia names its 1st COVID-19 vaccine 'Sputnik V' after space race triumph By Chelsea Gohd Russia's working on a COVID-19 vaccine, and it's got a seriously space-y name: Sputnik V.
Perseid meteor shower 2020 weather forecast: Here's what to expect in the US for tonight's peak! By Joe Rao The 2020 Perseid meteor shower peaks overnight tonight (Aug. 11 and 12). Here's the U.S. weather forecast.
Pictures from space! Our image of the day By Space.com Staff NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy snapped this breathtaking shot of the Galapagos Islands from his current post aboard the International Space Station.
The Perseid meteor shower of 2020 peaks tonight! Here's how to watch live. By Chelsea Gohd The Perseids are back! This week, you can catch the annual meteor shower, a favorite of many skywatchers, as it peaks thanks to four livestreams.
On This Day in Space! Aug. 11, 1960: 1st object successfully recovered from orbit By Hanneke Weitering On Aug. 11, 1960, part of the Discoverer 13 satellite became the first human-made object to be recovered from Earth's orbit. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!
What happens if black holes fall into wormholes? A new way to find out. By Charles Q. Choi Astronomers might detect black holes falling into wormholes via ripples in space and time called gravitational waves, a new study finds.
'Spacepower': US Space Force releases foundational doctrine By Mike Wall The new military branch, which President Donald Trump officially established in December 2019, just published its first doctrine, a 41-page document called "Spacepower."
Firefly aims to debut its Alpha rocket for small satellites this fall By Elizabeth Howell Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket for small satellites should be ready to launch for the first time this fall, company representatives said.
Pentagon picks SpaceX, ULA to launch national security missions By Amy Thompson The Department of Defense is sticking with SpaceX and United Launch Alliance as its two primary launch services for U.S. national security missions.
This giant crater on Ceres with bright spots may be the most fascinating place in the solar system By Meghan Bartels For a few months in 2018, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft used up its last drops of fuel, it gave scientists an incredibly detailed look at one of the strangest places in the solar system: Occator Crater.
NASA cameras catch early fireballs from Perseid meteor shower of 2020 (video) By Mike Wall NASA's All-Sky Fireball Network captured Perseid meteors streaking overhead on Saturday and Sunday (Aug. 8 and Aug. 9).
Heavy atom spills its guts in decade-long experiment By Rafi Letzter A new experiment on ultra-rare astatine could open the door to cancer treatments and new research into super-heavy atoms.
Two Canadian ice caps have completely vanished from the Arctic, NASA imagery shows By Brandon Specktor New NASA imagery shows that the St. Patrick bay ice caps have vanished from Arctic Canada, two years sooner than scientists predicted
Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found. By Diane Lincoln A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling.
Space tourists will face big risks, as private companies gear up for paid suborbital flights By Sara M. Langston While some hazards of spaceflight and the space environment — like G-forces, radiation, vibration and microgravity — are well documented, many risks remain unknown.
Extragalactic planets? Gravitational waves could help us find them. By Charles Q. Choi Scientists may one day detect alien planets outside the Milky Way using the ripples in space and time known as gravitational waves, a new study finds.
'Star Trek: Lower Decks' warps into the animated comedy frontier with 'Second Contact' By Scott Snowden The new animated "Star Trek" show, "The Lower Decks" gets off to a promising start on CBS All Access with the first episode "Second Contact."
Mysterious 'fast radio burst' detected closer to Earth than ever before By Brandon Specktor Scientists traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to a known star inside the Milky Way for the first time.
