‘For All Mankind’s’ Costa Ronin on ruling Mars, honoring cosmonaut history, and learning to tie his tie (interview)
Acclaimed actor Costa Ronin (“The Americans,” “Homeland”) is another fresh face in Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” season…
Massive ‘X’ and ‘V’ shapes will appear on the moon tonight — here’s how to see them
Celestron SkyMaster Pro 15×70 (Image credit: Celestron) These are our best binoculars for moon views. The 15x magnification…
NASA stunned as strange solar radio burst lasts 19 days
When NASA scientists first picked up a radio burst coming from the Sun in August 2025, the signal…
Photographer captures a rare combination of night sky phenomena in one image – “At first, it was hard to believe”
“Sometimes, the most memorable images emerge when conditions seem to fail, only to align in ways you could…
Musk may already be a trillionaire. SpaceX staff and investors will hit multibillion-dollar jackpots
The biggest initial public offering of all time will deliver massive windfalls for Elon Musk, other SpaceX employee,…
Scientists get their best-ever look at distant planet’s surface
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Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the mission kept going only because a flight controller recognised an obscure telemetry failure pattern and told the crew to flip a switch almost nobody else in the room understood
The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was…
Don’t wait for the full moon: Here’s when the moon looks best through a telescope
If you’re planning to point a telescope at the moon this week, don’t wait for the full moon.…
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow
On a quiet night at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, a pulse of green laser light…
SpaceX Announces Plans to Put Billionaire on First Rocket to Mars
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The…
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying picked for space station mission
Hong Kong will send its first astronaut to the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced…
Researchers simulated 30 million routes to the Moon and found a hidden detour through L1 that saves fuel and keeps spacecraft talking to Earth the whole way
An international team of researchers has identified a new fuel-efficient route between Earth and the Moon that also…