It’s a contested field, but John Williams’ majestic “Superman” theme is up there with the best the composer’s ever written. Almost five decades on, that stirring orchestral march remains synonymous…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 sample-return spacecraft is on target to make one of the closest ever flybys of a near-Earth asteroid in early July, as part of its extended mission campaign. Hayabusa2…
Efrain Morales captured a breathtaking view of the Tiangong space station crossing the moon from Puerto Rico. (Image credit: Efrain Morales) Astrophotographer Efrain Morales captured spectacular footage of China’s Tiangong…
SpaceX will launch a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast tonight (June 28), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with…
The event horizon of a black hole should be impossible to study. It’s the point of no return, the boundary where gravity grows so strong that not even light can…
Hot Jupiter exoplanets have completely changed how we look at the universe. This is because before the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star was discovered in 1995, 51 Pegasi b,…
Comets have play an interesting role in astronomy history. From antiquity, many cultures saw them omens or spirits, portending good or bad news for kings, queens, and emperors. Over the…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton may have found a supernova remnant near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. If confirmed as a…
The 1970s were truly when science fiction cinema made astronomical leaps into the public’s consciousness and catapulted out of the B-movie bin to become a respected entertainment genre. Aside from…
On Episode 216 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson about other intelligences is beyond our scope. Whiteson, particle physicist at…
