Astronomers Hear the Faint Whispers of Cosmic Hydrogen from the Distant Past.
The MeerKAT radio telescope, composed of 64 dish antennas located in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, was built…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Sept. 6). The spacecraft rode to…
Astronaut captures Miami lighting shift from space
A photograph of Miami lit by multi-colored LEDs in 2025 taken from the International Space Station. Courtesy of…
One of the world’s darkest paints makes everything look like a black hole – and it could save our night sky
A new study of one of the world’s darkest coatings suggests it could dramatically reduce the impact of…
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
Small asteroid impact today over the ocean near Australia
Artist’s concept of an asteroid near Earth. Experts said a small asteroid impact will happen over the Indian…
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB Sunday
UPDATE (7:27 a.m.) – The launch lifted off. — UPDATE (7:17 a..m.) Liftoff is now scheduled for around…
Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% of our planet, while modern Mars has no permanent bodies of liquid water.
Mars looks small beside Earth. Its mean radius is about 3,390 kilometres, a little over half Earth’s, and…
Guests from across the galaxy visiting Lichfield city centre for 2026 Space Invasion
VISITORS from a galaxy far, far away will be making a return visit to Lichfield city centre next…
James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy’s rarest stars inside the ‘Treasure Chest’ globule — Space photo of the week
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the “Treasure Chest,” a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on…
APOD: 2026 September 6 – Pluto in Enhanced Color
Explanation: Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System’s…
From January 1994 to March 1995, cosmonaut-physician Valeri Polyakov spent 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, circling Earth 7,075 times and travelling nearly 187 million miles to test whether a human could endure a Mars-length mission—and more than three decades later, no one has broken his record for a single continuous spaceflight.
When the Soyuz TM-20 capsule landed in Kazakhstan on 22 March 1995, Valeri Polyakov had been away from…