The moon shines with a swarm of stars on May 21 as Jupiter, Venus and Mercury line up nearby
Look west after sunset tonight (May 21) to see the crescent moon shining alongside the Beehive Cluster in…
SpaceX reveals plans for what could be biggest-ever initial public offering
The world’s richest man has announced plans for one of the biggest sales of stock to the public…
The astronauts on the International Space Station see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day, and the question of when to sleep, when to pray, and when to celebrate birthdays has caused genuine philosophical problems for every space agency that has ever sent humans up there
Astronauts have described watching a sunrise from the cupola of the International Space Station, and then, before finishing…
The Parker Solar Probe is still flying through the Sun’s corona at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, because a 4.5-inch carbon-foam shield keeps the spacecraft in the shade
The Parker Solar Probe is still the fastest object ever built by human hands, flying through the Sun’s…
Dante’s Inferno may describe Hell like a giant asteroid impact
Dante’s Inferno describes Hell as a massive funnel-shaped pit, nine terraced levels deep, narrowing toward a frozen core…
Scientists discover a strange “inside-out” planetary system that shouldn’t exist
Children often learn the order of the planets in our Solar System using quirky memory phrases like “My…
Elon Musk’s Plan to Keep Complete Control of SpaceX After Its Public
Scorned by his time helming Tesla, Elon Musk went a long way to ensure he’s not at the…
There is a cloud of alcohol drifting through the constellation Aquila that is 1,000 times the diameter of our solar system and contains enough ethanol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer — and nobody has any commercial way to reach it, which is probably for the best
In 1995, a team of British radio astronomers led by Dr Tom Millar pointed one of the world’s…
New Eruption in the Bismarck Sea
It’s a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the Moon and…
Multi-viewpoint observation of a failed prominence eruption on the Sun
Priest, E. R. & Forbes, T. G. The magnetic nature of solar flares. Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 10, 313–377…
SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites From California
SpaceX has successfully launched another batch of 24 Starlink satellites, continuing the company’s relentless pursuit to build the…
Blue Origin’s MK1 passed key NASA testing before launch
Five weeks ago, the Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after looping around the Moon –…