How Saving Earth Could Ruin Orbit
Satellite imaging is increasingly important to every field from crop monitoring to poverty reduction. So it’s no surprise that there have been more and more satellites launched to try to…
From Hyrule to the heavens: Here’s what ‘The Legend of Zelda’ gets right (and wrong) about the blood moon
“The blood moon rises once again! Please be careful, Link.”
Tiny Dust Grains From Massive Stars: How the Smallest and Largest Are Linked
Star dust is at the root of everything that exists, and is produced in large quantities around Wolf-Rayet binaries. But there are some puzzling observations of dust grain sizes that…
Total lunar eclipse weather forecast: Will US skies be clear for the blood moon?
Cloud cover outlook for the total lunar eclipse — where the blood moon will be visible.
4 bright planets light up March evenings — here’s where and when to look
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars shine together after sunset in early March, with Mercury at its best of 2026.
SpaceX deploys two more Starlink groups into orbit on March 1 bicoastal launches (video)
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida lofted 54 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday, March…
Sunglint on Atlantic Ocean
NASA Sunlight beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. This is an example of…
NASA, JAXA to Cover HTV-X1 Spacecraft Departure from Space Station
The new HTV‑X1 cargo spacecraft from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), carrying science, supplies, and hardware for NASA and its international partners, is pictured on Oct. 29, 2025, after its…
How to Weigh a Killer Asteroid at 22 Kilometers per Second
Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about it, after its trajectory. Actually doing so isn’t easy though, as…
Stargazing into the future of SSA
SpaceX has disrupted the launch business with the Falcon 9 and the satellite communications business with Starlink. Now it may be taking aim at the emerging space situational awareness (SSA)…