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…
A Giant Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Spreading and Scientists Are Worried
A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to…
Apple Watch 11 can now tap Starlink satellites for messaging and emergencies
While Apple invested in Globalstar as the satellite service provider for its iPhones, its latest Watch series is…
China develops satellite power system to support future space weapons
Scientists in China claim that they have finally cracked a decades-old dilemma that has long prevented the development…