WATCH: Bright Fireball Streaks Across Washington at 33,000 MPH
A bright fireball streaked across the Washington night sky early Aug. 14 at 12:48 a.m. PDT. First spotted…
In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmitting
Launch of IMAGE spacecraft aboard of Delta 277 | Wikimedia Commons For more than 12 years, NASA’s IMAGE…
NASA rover finds gemstone-like minerals on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found unexpected traces of chromium-bearing corundum, a mineral associated with gemstones, in rocks at…
Solar eclipse in the South West: Pac-man to Shinto myths – BBC
Solar eclipse in the South West: Pac-man to Shinto myths BBCSolar eclipse warning after 70 Britons suffered permanent eye…
NASA watched Earth disappear from the surface of Mars for the first time ever
Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another…
Three supermassive black holes have been discovered in the same galaxy
If black holes fascinate astronomers, it is mainly because of their power, but also because of the many…
Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a “Black Hole Star”
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic monstrosity: a “black hole…
Baby Name of the Week August 14: Eclipse
Each week, the TODAY Parents team highlights a favorite baby name or set of sibling names. It may…
A planet called WASP-127b, roughly 520 light-years from Earth, has a jet stream ripping around its equator at up to 33,000 km/h — more than 18 times faster than Neptune’s winds, the fastest found anywhere in our own Solar System.
Astronomers have measured atmospheric motion around the equator of WASP-127b at close to 9 kilometres per second, about…
SpaceX’s Starship generates more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V that carried humans to the Moon, yet after 13 test flights it still hasn’t demonstrated ship-to-ship refueling in orbit — one of the biggest technical hurdles standing between Starship and Mars.
SpaceX’s Starship V3 leaves its launch pad with roughly 18 million pounds of thrust. NASA credits the Saturn…
The Tarantula That Lost Its Fire
Some of the best science stories start with a puzzle nobody expected. This one begins in the Large…
‘Strap yourself in and feel the Gs’: NASA announces ‘Max Power’ aerospace expo
NASA will hold a two-day aerospace exposition this November, and it may draw a surprising number of “Simpsons”…