On this day in space! Sept. 9, 1982: The 1st private rocket Conestoga 1 launches from Texas ranch
On Sept. 9, 1982, the first private rocket launched from a Texas cattle ranch. The Conestoga 1 rocket…
APOD: 2026 September 10 – LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
APOD: 2026 September 10 – LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggest
The moon may have formed in as few as five hours after the cataclysmic collision between Earth and…
Earth May Not Be a Cosmic Fluke, New Simulations Suggest
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the…
How 2 US, European Satellites Are Studying Hurricanes During El Niño
Last November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure,…
New Revelations About the Origin of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Ever since 3I/ATLAS buzzed through the Solar System, swinging by Earth and then looping around the Sun, scientists…
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft
offbeat Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded There’s a lot of garbage…
Macron calls for an ‘independent’ Europe in space as SpaceX skips the Paris summit
Key figures from Europe’s space industry and other international players have converged on Paris to discuss how to…
NASA’s newly launched Roman Space Telescope will ‘directly’ image exoplanets. But what does that mean?
A brand new observatory began its tenure on Aug. 30 — it’s called the Nancy Grace Roman Space…
In 1947, fruit flies were sent into space using captured German rocket. Decades later, NASA studied how space affects immunity |
A tiny insect became one of the earliest living passengers sent towards space, long before astronauts were routinely…
This ‘impossible’ black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
A “forbidden” merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought.…
International Space Station astronaut gives out of this world tribute to honor Star Trek’s 60th anniversary
Celebrations of Star Trek’s 60th anniversary made it all the way to the final frontier. Among the science…