Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*,…
NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft…
Pluto Planetary Science is the Gift that Keeps on Giving
Something’s wetting the surface of dwarf planet Pluto along the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, and planetary scientists…
The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
Landing from space The Zhuque-3, or ZQ-3, rocket lifted off from a commercial launch zone at China’s Jiuquan…
Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way | Astronomy
Astronomers have detected the fastest known star in the Milky Way, hurtling around the supermassive black hole at…
NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce
NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and streamline state-based pathways for students…
Perseverance rover watchs alien solar eclipse on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 19, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover saw a solar eclipse from the Martian surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) People around the…
A camera the size of a small car, sitting on a mountain in Chile, began taking a new image of the southern sky every 40 seconds on 30 June 2026 — building a ten-year time-lapse of the universe that will scan the entire southern sky every few nights and issue up to seven million alerts a night whenever something moves or flickers.
On 30 June 2026, a camera roughly the size of a small car stopped being primarily an engineering…
‘Zhuque returns to the nest’: a space gift from China to the world on Qixi Festival
This screenshot from a video clip shows the first stage of the Zhuque-3 Y2 rocket successfully completing its…
US Air Force flight to Antarctica turns back after space activity warning
A US Air Force flight bound for Antarctica returned to New Zealand after a warning about “potentially hazardous”…
Astronomers discover a giant, rocky ‘mega-Earth’ 23 times more massive than our planet
Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive, dense exoplanet that challenges conventional ideas about how rocky planets form. Called…
Closest black hole to Earth is Gaia BH1, 1,600 lightyears
The closest black hole to Earth is a stellar mass black hole just 1,600 lightyears away called Gaia…