When is the next lunar eclipse?
August’s “almost Blood Moon” partial lunar eclipse has come and gone, delighting stargazers with a gorgeous natural light show as light filtered by our planet’s atmosphere turned it a deep…
On this day in space! Aug. 29, 1965: NASA’s Gemini 5 breaks spaceflight duration record after 2 astronauts spent ‘8 days in a garbage can’
On Aug. 29, 1965, two NASA astronauts returned from their record-breaking Gemini 5 mission. Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad spent eight days in Earth orbit, and for the first…
SpaceX test-fires Starship Super Heavy booster ahead of critical Flight 14 (video)
SpaceX just took another step toward the highly anticipated next test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company conducted an engine test with Starship‘s giant first-stage booster, known as Super…
Interstellar Travel V: Warp Drives, Wormholes, and Halo Drives
In our fifth installment, we explore the most exotic proposals for interstellar travel, including the Alcubierre Warp Metric, wormhole travel, the Halo Drive, and other truly advanced concepts.
What time will SpaceX launch NASA’s Roman Space Telscope on Aug. 30? (Full mission timeline)
A huge SpaceX rocket is just days away from launching NASA’s next great observatory into space: the Roman Space Telescope. But if you’re hoping to watch it live online, you’ll…
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Receives Congressional Space Medal of Honor
President Donald J. Trump awarded NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman with the Congressional Space Medal of…
NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team won NASA’s LunaRecycle Challenge competition for their project, Composites for Extraterrestrial Recycling By Engineering the Reuse and Upcycling of Zotek (CERBERUZ). Credit: NASA/Savannah Bullard…
Our choice as one of the best budget telescopes now has 17% off — this telescope deal is worth grabbing fast
The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ is one of the best telescopes for beginner-to-intermediate stargazers who want to view deep-sky objects and appreciate assistance in manually locating the targets. Right…
The night we nearly saw a ‘blood moon’ (and why I love near-misses in astronomy)
Stargazers have trigger words — total, bright, peak, maximum, best. But observing the sky is often more interesting when something seems neither one thing nor the other. A case in…
‘It’s going to be beautiful’: President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy
The United States will soon have a new service academy — or something like it, anyway. President Donald Trump today (Aug. 28) signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space…