SpaceX sends 27 Starlink satellites to orbit on 100th Falcon rocket launch of the year (photos)
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for…
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of radio…
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
offbeat Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost The team behind the…
Lunar legacy: U of A researchers building moon-bound camera
Even the smallest of shadows on the moon’s surface can harbor water ice and other chemical compounds, known…
How will NASA’s astronaut training hub change with commercial space stations?
HOUSTON — What does NASA’s astronaut training hub look like these days, as the agency aims to bring…
Scientists have found the fastest star in our Galaxy. And it could tell them how fast our central black hole is spinning
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in our home Galaxy, the Milky Way. The star, named S301,…
JWST finds early galaxies may be 4 times more massive than thought
Astronomers have found that some of the largest galaxies in the early universe contained many more small stars…
On this day in space! Aug. 22, 1963: X-15 sets world altitude record
On Aug. 22, 1963, U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane higher than any…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
2026-08-22T10:05:12.444Z Where will the Aug. 27-28 partial lunar eclipse be visible? The partial phase of a lunar eclipse…
In January 1946, eleven years before Sputnik, a US Army radio crew in New Jersey bounced a signal off the Moon and heard it come back 2.5 seconds later, and that echo was the first time anything humans made had touched another world
On the morning of 10 January 1946, at a scrubby Army post near the New Jersey shore called…
Rocket Lab (RKLB) Lands Spot On Nearly $1 Billion Space Force Program
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Voyager 2 discovered ten moons when it flew past Uranus in 1986. Nearly 40 years later, James Webb found one it missed: Uranus’s 29th known moon, a tiny world only about 10 kilometres wide hiding among the planet’s inner moons.
When Voyager 2 crossed the Uranian system on 24 January 1986, its cameras found ten moons that had…