A million people on Mars, a billion SpaceX shares: Inside Elon Musk’s peculiar performance-based bonuses
When SpaceX released its investor prospectus last week, it revealed an unusual condition in the compensation deal for…
The Fastest-Known Star Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole Has Been Spotted—Now It Could Help Test Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
The fastest-moving star, S301, was discovered recently by Stefan Gillessen’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial…
What is the blue-white star next to the moon on May 26?
Look to the southern sky at sunset on May 26 to see the waxing gibbous moon shining close…
Nothing beats a beautiful sunset (from space) photo of the day for May 26, 2026
A sunset captured from space on May 4, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/Chris Williams) There are few sights as…
Elon Musk’s best friend could make $100 billion on SpaceX. His firm is also owed billions
His name is Antonio Gracias, a handsome private equity investor from Detroit. The two met through the Silicon…
Scientists just found a supercharged supernova — powered up by a magnetic star corpse
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion that may have been powered up by…
John Fabian, astronaut of STS-51-G mission, dies at 87
RIYADH: Former NASA astronaut John Fabian, who flew alongside Prince Sultan bin Salman on the landmark STS-51-G mission in…
What Are Those Two Bright Stars In The West After Sunset?
Jupiter and Venus create spectacle view as they appeard extremely close on March 2, 2023 (Photo by Nicolas…
Jupiter’s Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, may be heating up
Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede is the only known moon to have its own magnetic field — and it…
A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid
The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it studies, recently performed…
Scientists think they may have found the remains of an entire galaxy that the Milky Way absorbed billions of years ago — 20 unusual stars hiding inside our own galactic disk, possibly the leftovers of a small galaxy our own home swallowed when it was still young
The Milky Way, by every available measurement of how large galaxies actually develop, is a particular kind of…
Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster – NASA Science
Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and…