Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System
1 min read Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System 1 Min Read Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System Our solar system’s eight planets plus Pluto. Credits:…
OMB suggests NOAA scale back plans for geostationary satellites
SAN FRANCISCO – A White House budget proposal calls for replacing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s future geostationary satellite constellation, GeoXO, with a far less expensive and ambitious program.…
SpaceX launches European reentry capsule on ‘Bandwagon-3’ rideshare mission
SpaceX sent a pioneering private reentry capsule to space today (April 21) on a rideshare mission called Bandwagon-3.
NASA’s Lucy Probe Snaps Its Closeup of a Weirdly Shaped Asteroid
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a successful flyby of the second asteroid on its must-see list over the weekend, and sent back imagery documenting the elongated object’s bizarre double-lobed shape. It…
Astronaut Don Pettit Celebrates his 70th Birthday By Returning to Earth’s Crushing Gravity
After spending 220 days on board the International Space Station, astronaut Don Pettit is back on Earth. He returned to Earth on Sunday, April 20th, which coincides with his 70th…
NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), a space telescope, is situated on a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the…
SpaceX launch creates a ‘nebula’ | Space picture of the day for April 21, 2025
The plume from a rocket engine burn high in Earth’s atmosphere caused a glowing spectacle similar in appearance to a nebula.
Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut at 70, arrives in Houston after 7-month space mission (photo)
NASA’s oldest active astronaut, the 70-year-old Don Pettit, has returned home to Houston after a seven-month stint aboard the International Space Station.
Amazon’s Kuiper 1 internet satellites get new April 28 launch date on Atlas V rocket after delay
The first 27 satellites of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet constellation are now scheduled to lift off atop an Atlas V rocket on April 28 from Florida.
Did we actually find signs of alien life on K2-18b? ‘We should expect some false alarms and this may be one’
Last week, scientists announced they found the “strongest evidence yet” of alien life beyond our solar system. However, the scientific community remains skeptical.