Perseid meteor shower puts on light show in night sky over North Bay
The North Bay hills held the fog mostly at bay early Thursday, allowing good views during peak conditions…
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
On 16 July 2024, a daytime fireball crossed the sky near New York City, generated a sonic boom,…
U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has completed the deployment of two space-surveillance sensors aboard Japanese navigation satellites,…
James Webb has found patches of fresh crystalline ice on Europa that should be destroyed by Jupiter’s radiation in less than 15 days — meaning parts of the moon’s frozen surface are being renewed fast enough to keep replacing it, possibly offering clues to activity beneath the ice shell.
Europa’s radiation clock runs fast enough to erase order from its exposed ice in about a fortnight. Charged…
Pluto’s sky is blue, chunks of its water-ice mountains float like icebergs across glaciers of frozen nitrogen, and its moon is so large that the two worlds orbit a point in empty space between them — yet Pluto still hasn’t completed a single trip around the Sun since humans discovered it in 1930.
A visitor descending towards Pluto would meet contradictions before reaching the ground. Above lies a blue atmospheric haze,…
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…
NASA Administrator ‘extremely confident’ in Artemis 3 mission in 2027 – Spaceflight Now
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces the Max Power event, an air and space expo that will take place…
Wallops gears up for an increase in launches
SALISBURY, Md. — With a projected surge in launches from Wallops Island, Virginia, in the coming years, companies…
NASA is flying a modified U-2 spy plane to study how wildfires can create storms
NASA is using a modified version of the U-2 spy plane, created during the Cold War, to study…
NASA Announces MAX POWER: America’s Newest Aerospace Expo, Airshow
In honor of America’s historic 250th anniversary, NASA announced on Friday MAX POWER, a public exposition of American…
Plan to Deorbit Old Satellites Gains Steam with New Deals
Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting…
Scientists hope to shed light on young universe by using far side of the moon | The moon
Little is known about what was happening shortly after the big bang, but now researchers are hoping to…