It’s time to give NASA an astrophysics nervous system
The most tragic event in modern astronomy isn’t a funding cut or a launch failure. It is a…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida (video)
Twenty-nine newly-launched Starlink satellites are now in low Earth orbit. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the internet…
Veteran cosmonaut pulled from joint Russian–U.S. mission after allegedly photographing sensitive SpaceX hardware — Meduza
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has been removed from the Crew-12 mission, a Roscosmos flight to the International Space Station operated…
LEGO announces new NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally!) in 2026
December 2, 2025 — How do you top a highly-detailed scale model of NASA’s new moon-bound rocket and…
NASA Captures a Strange Formation in the Sahara— and It’s Older Than Dinosaurs
Three shadowy plateaus rising from the endless sands of Mauritania have captivated scientists once again. A recent observation…
First Detailed Look at a Tsunami From Space Reveals Unexpected Feature : ScienceAlert
A satellite has tracked a tsunami in greater detail than ever before, which could help improve models of…
Northern Lights may shine over Canada Wednesday night
Published on Dec. 2, 2025, 11:17 PM Check your sky forecast and turn your eyes to the north,…
NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots Demo to Bolster In-Space Infrastructure
NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the…
Possible magnetic field detected on nearby exoplanet YZ Ceti b
Astrophysicists have detected a repeating burst of radio waves from a nearby red dwarf, signals that rise and…
This Chinese company could become the country’s first to land a reusable rocket
That’s no Falcon 9 The Chinese companies that master reusable rocketry first will have an advantage in the…
Time travels faster on Mars than on Earth, and here’s why
Time passes, on average, 477 millionths of a second faster per day on Mars than on Earth thanks…
For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station
The space station is feeling like a lot of us in the wake of Thanksgiving — very, very…