Two asteroids receive unprecedented visits from space probes in a single week | Science
It’s strange how we get used to what was once extraordinary. At the start of July, two spacecraft…
Meteor Activity Outlook for July 18-24, 2026
Mark Kirschner captured this colorful fireball on December 7, 2025, at 20:42 EST (01:42 UT on Dec 8)…
Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has contracted by up to seven kilometres, wrinkling its surface into cliffs hundreds of miles long
Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains…
7 Stargazing Accessories You Need This Summer — And When To Use Them
The Sky View XL Stargazing Tent features an ultra-fine mesh roof. Eric_Weiland/Sky View (used with permission) Summer is…
Space Force welcomes first part-time guardians
The Space Force welcomed its first part-time troops on Wednesday, bringing in 18 Air Force Reservists as the…
Enceladus, a Saturn moon just 500 kilometres wide, fires geysers of water thousands of kilometres into space through cracks at its south pole — and that water carries the building blocks of life
Enceladus is only about 500 kilometres across, yet it continuously ejects water vapour and ice from fractures near…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
A rare type of meteorite known as a CO chondrite was likely the object that slammed into Earth…
St. Louis Planetarium reopens with the most advanced hybrid system in the country
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – The largest upgrades in more than 25 years are officially complete…
What Do SpaceX, AMD, and Palantir Have in Common?
Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) may seem like an odd…
Pentagon awards $7.1 million to expand U.S. production of cover glass for satellites
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon awarded $7.1 million to Martin Materials Solutions to expand U.S. manufacturing of space-qualified cover…
Space Force triples launch contract ceiling amid rising demand
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has more than tripled the ceiling of a major national security launch…