SpaceX’s next astronaut mission to the International Space Station won’t launch on Sept. 12 after all. That flight, known as Crew-13, has been delayed due to an oxidizer leak in…
On August 31, 1965, NASA’s Super Guppy cargo plane took its first test flight. This oversized aircraft looks a bit like a giant flying whale. It was built by a…
NASA/John Kraus NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, transits the Sun during launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 30,…
Astrophysicists at Syracuse University in New York think they’ve found a hitherto-hidden explanation for strange activity during so-called repeating partial Tidal Disruption Events (rpTDEs). These are interactions between a supermassive…
While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude them – they have yet to find an Earth-mass, rocky planet orbiting…
2 Min Read Roman Commissioning Beauty pass of Roman, coming around from behind with high-gain antenna rotating. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab Where is Roman? Roman is…
Cislunar space is already getting crowded. And with that crowding comes infrastructure complications. One is navigation – there is no Global Positioning System available when you’re not on the globe.…
At least once in our lives, we’ve all seen a bright streak of light briefly blaze across the sky and have quickly referred to it as an asteroid, meteor, shooting…
When a meteoroid hits the Moon’s surface, it does more than just dig up a little dirt. It actually excavates a little bit of cosmic history that recorded a long-ago…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —President Trump interrupted a NASA press conference today (Aug. 30) to congratulate the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team on a successful launch. Just a few years…
