Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department
Starbase, the company town that Elon Musk’s SpaceX created in South Texas, is forming its own police squad.…
It’s time to think about human reproduction in space, scientists urge
As humanity moves from brief space missions toward longer stays — driven by commercial ambitions for moon bases…
Watch dead neutron stars smash together in new NASA supercomputer simulation
A new simulation created using a NASA supercomputer has shown how things get messy for merging neutron stars…
US House takes first step toward creating “commercial” deep space program
A US House committee with oversight of NASA unanimously passed a “reauthorization” act for the space agency on…
Jaw-dropping raw footage shows spacecraft ripping through the atmosphere as it reenters Earth at Mach 25
Space exploration continues to quite literally hit new highs, and this footage shows a spacecraft zooming back down…
Sun unleashes colossal X4.2 solar flare, knocking out radio signals across Africa and Europe (video)
The sun is certainly putting on quite the show this week. Earlier today (Feb. 4), it fired off…
Life-friendly molecules are leaking out of Jupiter’s giant moon Europa, Galileo images hint
Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa appears to have life-friendly molecules on its surface. Al Emran, a researcher with NASA‘s…
James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant galaxy ever detected: 'It looks nothing like what we predicted' – Space
James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant galaxy ever detected: ‘It looks nothing like what we predicted’ SpaceNASA Webb…
A monstrous sunspot 15 Earth’s wide is currently facing Earth — Here’s how to see it for yourself
A monstrous sunspot region 15-Earths-wide is currently so large it can be seen without binoculars or telescopes. But…
US lab uses lasers, heat to map neptunium for deep-space nuclear fuel
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are studying neptunium, a rare radioactive element. It serves as the…
Astronomers relieved as industrial plant threatening Earth’s darkest sky gets cancelled
A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories…
‘Textbooks will need to be updated’: Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals
Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than scientists thought for decades, a new study finds. Researchers used radio…