NASA’s Hubble Spots Star-Spangled Cosmic Scene
Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits…
This Giant Planet Survived the Death of its Star
Some planets can survive when their main sequence stars “die” and evolve into red giants. Astronomers have found several of them. One of them in particular is orbiting extremely close…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites from California
SpaceX grew its Starlink network by 24 more satellites on Wednesday evening (July 1) with a launch from California. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the two dozen new relay spacecraft…
SpaceX fires up all 6 of Starship’s engines ahead of 13th test flight (video)
Less than a week after its last test, SpaceX’s latest Starship spacecraft went back to the stand for engine checkouts ahead of a coming test flight. The upper stage for…
‘Silo’ season 3: Release date & how to watch Apple TV’s sensational post-apocalyptic saga
“Silo” season 3 is almost upon us, offering another round of riveting episodes of Apple TV’s undeniably intriguing sci-fi series. We’re about to learn how the end of the world…
Apollo 11 landing site, a cosmic Eagle and a blue-white star: 4 night sky targets to celebrate America 250
The United States’ 250th birthday is almost here, so why not take a break from the fireworks and explore four America-themed wonders hiding in the summer night sky? Celestron NexStar…
Perovskite solar panel startup Verde Technologies shifts focus to space
Verde Technologies is turning to space to commercialize perovskite-based solar panels, shifting its initial focus away from rooftops in a bet that the thin-film material can help power orbital data…
Isar Aerospace to launch German-built Planet imaging satellite
Isar Aerospace won a contract from Planet’s German subsidiary to launch an imaging satellite, demonstrating an end-to-end space capability for the country. The post Isar Aerospace to launch German-built Planet…
NASA’s Artemis II Breaks Agency Streaming Record
From left: The Artemis II crew—NASA astronaut Christina Koch; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen; and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover—take time out for a group hug…
‘Stellar death is not the end’: James Webb Space Telescope glimpses the fate of the solar system in a weird exoplanet orbiting a dead star
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a dead star, a white dwarf, located some 80 light-years away. This “life…