A Starlink Satellite Is Tumbling Toward Earth After a Strange Anomaly in Orbit
SpaceX has lost contact with one of its broadband satellites, which is now falling toward Earth due to…
New ‘CRASH Clock’ Warns of 2.8-Day Window Before Likely Orbital Collision
Last week, a Chinese spacecraft passed within just 655 feet (200 meters) of a Starlink satellite, narrowly avoiding…
Chinese Spacecraft Got Disturbingly Close to Smashing Into a Starlink Satellite
Low-Earth orbit is getting a little crowded. As operators around the world launch more satellites and spacecraft each…
Your Next Flight Might Be Directed From Space
If you’re traveling during the holiday season, then you’ll likely be anticipating the dreaded packed airports and flight…
Almost Half of Hubble Telescope Images Could be Ruined by Satellite Constellations
Space telescopes are facing increasing difficulties in realizing accurate, unpolluted images of the cosmos due to the growing…
What’s that in the sky? WTOP has the answers
We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain —…
Rocket launch coming up today in California. Time, date, where to watch
SpaceX has its first Falcon 9 rocket launch planned for December from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Thanksgiving…
Voyager 1 will be one light-day, 16 billion miles, from us next year
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as…
A NASA Space Telescope Is Falling Out of the Sky. Can This Startup Save it?
An Earth-orbiting NASA telescope is slowly falling out of the sky, with a 90% chance of uncontrolled reentry…
Astro Bob: Glorious auroras — region thrills to back-to-back solar blasts – Duluth News Tribune
Did you venture out past your bedtime to see the northern lights this week? They were incredible. We…
Is there a rocket launch today? Watch SpaceX liftoff in California
SpaceX has been contracted to launch the Sentinel-6B satellite into orbit on a civil mission to observe sea…
Earth always has more moons than you think
Still, maybe-moons bring a certain immediacy to astronomy that some far-flung wonders can’t achieve. Kat Volk, a planetary…