Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
2026-08-23T11:07:04.809Z How to view a partial lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse captured over the United Kingdom in 2007.…
Telescope image that echoes Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ contains some of the oldest stars in the universe — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud Where it is: 430 light-years away, in the…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual…
Trump to award NASA’s Artemis II astronauts the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
NASA’s Artemis II moon astronauts will join a very exclusive club next week. President Donald Trump will award…
On this day in space! Aug. 21, 1914: Total solar eclipse expedition crashed by WWI
On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia. A young German…
SpaceX fires up Starship ahead of megarocket’s 1st orbital flight (video)
SpaceX is picking up the pace of preparations for the next launch of its giant Starship rocket. On…
Our favorite reader images of the 2026 total eclipse
Credit: David Gluchowski On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse crossed Iceland and Spain — the first time…
TB 26-04 Updates and Modernization of NASA’s Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) Code
For more information, contact Mark K. Leader, Glenn Research Center, mark.leader@nasa.gov Download the PDF version NASA’s Chemical Equilibrium…
Chinese radio-frequency intelligence startup StarRF closes new funding round
HELSINKI — A Chinese startup building a constellation to detect and geolocate radio-frequency emissions from orbit has closed…
APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in…
Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed triplet
In astronomy, a broad emission line in hydrogen with no matching broad line in the forbidden oxygen doublet…
SpaceX launches 100th orbital mission of 2026 – Spaceflight Now
A Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch from the Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force…