NASA captures spiral galaxy located 55 million light-years away
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy located about 55 million…
In 2009, NASA fired a 5,000-pound rocket stage into a lunar crater, and found water in Moon dust |
NASA deliberately sent a spent rocket stage crashing into the Moon on October 9, 2009, with the target…
Is September’s Full Moon a Strawberry Moon? Here’s What the September 26 Moon Is Actually Called
The September 2026 Full Moon will be known as the Harvest Moon. This celestial event occurs near the…
Space Explorers’ Celebration: Join space legends and visionaries on Oct. 2 in Huntsville
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Space enthusiasts and community leaders will gather in the Rocket City next month to…
In 2014, NASA beamed a high-definition video from the ISS with a laser, testing a faster way to send data through space |
Artists rendering of an OPALS downlink/OPALS ground system | Wikimedia Commons NASA sent a high-definition video from the…
In 2010, NASA’s asteroid probe touched Bennu for seconds, sank almost 20 inches into loose rock and blasted roughly six tons of debris away |
This mosaic of Bennu was assembled from observations gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that orbited the asteroid for…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg – Spaceflight Now
File: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead…
SpaceX Targets September 28 For Starship’s First Orbital Flight
It will also be the first time the company is adding V3 satellites to the Starlink constellation.
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These are the absolute weirdest spacesuits ever designed
Spacesuits are important if you leave Earth’s protective atmosphere. Human-sized miniature spaceships, they provide protection against intense solar…
DLR’s Suborbital MAPHEUS-17 Mission to Launch as Early as 1 October
Credit: DLR /. SSC Space The German aerospace agency DLR’s MAPHEUS-17 suborbital research mission is slated to launch…
Citizen scientists revived NASA’s long-retired ISEE-3 probe in 2014 and fired its thrusters for the first time in 27 years, restoring its spin—but the larger burn meant to return it to an Earth–Sun observation point failed because the nitrogen needed to pressurize its fuel system had apparently run out.
In 2014, a spacecraft launched before the first Space Shuttle flight was approaching Earth for the first time…
A giant crater may reveal the origin of Mars’ doomed moon
Mars’ innermost moon, Phobos, has puzzled planetary scientists for decades. One of the biggest unanswered questions is where…