Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite to orbit for secret customer (photo)
Rocket Lab just launched a mystery mission to orbit. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand site on Thursday (Sept. 10) at 11:28 p.m. EDT (0328 GMT…
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The Star Trek franchise has hit the ripe old age of 60 this week. September 8 is the official ‘Star Trek Day’ and marks the anniversary of the ‘Original Series’,…
NASA’s Chandra Spots Galactic Gem
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and J. Major Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Return
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members suit up in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of launch to the International Space…
NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords
Poynting crater and Keeler crater are visible side by side in the lower right portion of this image of the Moon’s far side highlands. Poynting, positioned above, is a large…
How Big Can The Universe’s First Starbursts Get?
As our telescopes have improved and we’ve been able to peer farther back in time, we’ve begun finding more fascinating features of the universe. But one thing we definitely haven’t…
What’s Carving Active Gullies on Mars? It’s Not Water
Scientists were shocked when they received the first images of Martian gullies. They were even more shocked as those gullies appeared to change over time. Their similarities to gullies seen…
NASA’s Next Great Observatory Could Spot Oceans on Distant Worlds
We’ve found over 5,500 exoplanets so far. Dozens of them have been in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where, at least in theory, they could host an ocean.…
APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 11 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day…
eROSITA’s Second Data Release Catalog Delivering the Most Comprehensive High-Energy Census of the Cosmos to Date
The eROSITA Consortium has issued the survey’s second data release (DR2), nearly doubling the previously known eROSITA X-ray sources to two million.