The Rocket Engine for NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Just Aced a Critical Test (Video) By Chelsea Gohd On Aug. 5, 2019, the Orion spacecraft's main engine successfully completed a critical propulsion test.
Watch the Gantry Europe's New Ariane 6 Rocket Take Its 1st Test Drive (Time-Lapse Video) By Elizabeth Howell A new timelapse video shows the rocket gantry for Europe's newest booster, the Ariane 6, take its first test drive during a simulation of prelaunch rollout activities for future missions.
NASA's Next Big Space Telescope Aces Key Mirror Test (Video) By Elizabeth Howell NASA's next big space telescope is getting its light-collecting gear ready to go.
How to Watch the 2019 Perseid Meteor Shower Live Online By Elizabeth Howell One of the year's brightest meteor showers is about to take flight. If you face cloudy or light-polluted skies at home, however, never fear — the Perseids will also be streamed online.
Vector Replaces CEO Amid Reports of Financial Problems By Jeff Foust Small launch vehicle company Vector has replaced its founding chief executive and disclosed that financial difficulties have forced the company to suspend its operations.
NASA Calls on Students to Submit Proposals for Moon and Mars Missions By Passant Rabie The 2020 RASC-AL competition is now open for submissions from undergraduate and graduate students.
August Full Moon 2019: See the 'Sturgeon Moon' with Saturn During the Perseid Meteor Shower By Jesse Emspak The full moon of August will be in the night sky on Thursday (Aug. 15), arriving just one day after the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower and three nights after making a close pass to Saturn.
'Mad' Flat-Earther to Launch Himself 5,000 Feet Up on a Homemade Steam Rocket Sunday By Chelsea Gohd This weekend, flat-Earther and amateur rocketeer "Mad" Mike Hughes will attempt to launch himself 5,000 feet into the air.
Skywatching Spider Photobombs 2019 Perseid Meteor Shower By Meghan Bartels How do you spot a "shooting star"? Well, you don't look for eight legs; that's for sure.
The 2019 Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Soon: Here's What to Expect By Joe Rao August is regarded as "meteor month" with the appearance of one of the best displays of the year: the annual performance of the Perseid meteor shower, the most famous of all meteor showers.
Doomed Planets Around Dead Stars Can 'Broadcast' Their Woes for a Billion Years By Chelsea Gohd The surviving cores of planets orbiting dead stars emit radio waves that scientists can detect from Earth for up to a billion years, one new study has found.
Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down. By Rafi Letzter
Something Just Smacked Jupiter and Here's the Photo to Prove It By Meghan Bartels Ouch, that looks painful!
Can We Ever Understand the Size of Red Dwarf Stars? By Paul Sutter These stars, though extremely common, are tough to study.
Life May Be Common in the Milky Way, Thanks to Comet Swapping By Mike Wall Life has had plenty of opportunities to spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy over the eons — and our own Earth could be one of the key dispersal points.
Hubble Telescope's Gorgeous New Jupiter Views Could Help Demystify Shrinking Great Red Spot By Elizabeth Howell An amazing new image of Jupiter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope could shed light on the gas giant's mysterious atmospheric dynamics.
USRA's Earth from Space Institute Wants to Help Save the World By Meghan Bartels Miguel Román is the sort of person whose family barbecues are interrupted by calls from Army personnel asking where they should bring generators when a hurricane strikes.
Hail Félicette! French Space Cat Memorial Beginning to Take Shape By Hanneke Weitering Fifty-six years after a cat named Félicette became the first feline to launch into space, plans to build the cosmic cat's first proper memorial are beginning to take shape.
This Next-Gen Spacesuit Could Protect Astronauts on the Moon and Mars By Chelsea Gohd ILC Dover and Collins Aerospace unveiled a prototype of the Next Generation Space Suit system, which astronauts may use on the moon and Mars.
Dark Matter May Have Existed Before the Big Bang, New Math Suggests By Meghan Bartels Cracking the mystery of dark matter is one of the most frustrating quests of physics.
