Astronomers Locate Asteroid Moving So Fast It Challenges Space Mining Efforts
A small asteroid named 2022 OB5 has revealed an unexpected obstacle for asteroid miners: it rotates once every…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover is ready to complete a Martian marathon
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) – For NASA’s Perseverance Rover, life on Mars has been a…
Why Boeing Has the Most to Lose If Tesla and SpaceX Ever Combine
Quick Read Speculation has Elon Musk potentially merging Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX within the next decade. A unified…
The universe’s ‘most relaxed’ galaxy cluster was shaped by cosmic violence, new study finds
For decades, astronomers have described the galaxy cluster Abell 2029, a vast city of galaxies in the Virgo…
Mars Express Captured the Most Detailed Images Yet of a 1,300-Kilometer Scar Carved by Ancient Floods on the Red Planet
Shalbatana Vallis stretches roughly 1,300 kilometers, about the length of Italy, connecting the heavily cratered highland region of…
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 stacked ahead of May 21 liftoff
Refresh 2026-05-20T12:08:15.587Z Starship stacked ahead of launch SpaceX raises Ship 39 onto its Super Heavy booster ahead of…
How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket on May 21
Watch live! SpaceX launches Starship V3 megarocket for first time – YouTube Watch On SpaceX’s new “V3” Starship…
Johnson’s Cindy Evans Prepares Artemis Teams for Lunar Science
NASA’s Artemis II crew had many technical and operational responsibilities during their historic mission to the Moon, but…
Space Force names Sandhoo as head of new missile warning/tracking PAE
WASHINGTON ― The Space Force today formally announced the appointment of Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo as head of its…
Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse
The conventional story about Scott Kelly’s year in space is that he came back taller, weaker, and a…
The Mars rovers carry no clocks set to Earth time, so the engineers driving them shifted their entire lives to a 24-hour-39-minute Martian day, and within weeks JPL staff were sleeping during California afternoons, eating breakfast at midnight, and quietly developing a kind of jet lag no human had experienced before.
The two NASA rovers currently working on Mars, Curiosity in Gale Crater and Perseverance in Jezero, run on…
There is a single satellite launched by the US Navy in 1964 that is still in orbit, still transmitting, and still being used by amateur radio operators around the world — and nobody at the Navy has been in charge of it for decades
On December 28, 1964, a Thor-Able-Star rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and put…