UNF grad turned astronaut to take first mission to space in September
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A University of North Florida graduate is heading to space. Astronaut Luke Delaney will pilot…
Smoke Streams Across Eastern Washington
The start of August 2026 saw ongoing and new wildland fires burning in eastern Washington. West of Chelan,…
Planets, Meteors and a Solar Eclipse: August Is Going to Be a Big Month for Skygazing
If you’ve been staying inside all summer due to heat waves and poor air quality from the wildfires,…
From Africa to Alaska, here’s how BYU is helping NASA prepare for Dragonfly mission
PROVO — NASA’s Dragonfly mission, set to launch in 2028, is a first-of-its-kind voyage that will send a…
A SpaceX rocket will hit the moon on August 5
The spot where a Falcon 9 upper stage rocket body will collide with the moon on the morning…
CNN dives into how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are backing NASA’s race to the moon against China (exclusive clip)
The great technological leaps in American history have often featured influential industrialists who step forward as vanguards, leading…
Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas
Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and…
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean — but can we get to them?
NASA’s Europa Clipper is currently on a 1.8-billion-mile journey to Jupiter, tasked with assessing whether the icy moon…
Elon Musk Reveals Why He Needs So Much Control of SpaceX
One of the most controversial aspects of Space Exploration Technologies Corp (NASDAQ: SPCX), more commonly known as SpaceX,…
SpaceX investors urge company to paint its rockets pink and rename them
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star
For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space…