Astronomers Hear the Faint Whispers of Cosmic Hydrogen from the Distant Past.
Astronomers have directly detected an extremely faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light years away, demonstrating a powerful new way to map the Universe.
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket was captured from a German manufacturing site by the Allied forces at…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Sept. 6). The spacecraft rode to low Earth orbit (LEO) atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off…
A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Future gravitational wave observatories will be able to see the gravitational waves of close-orbiting binary stars. A newly studied white dwarf system could be one of the first systems we…
Feel the Force with these 10 out-of-this-world Lego Star Wars starships
Star Wars’ starships are almost as memorable the saga’s character and thanks to Lego’s Star Wars range, you can build your own replicas of these iconic craft. We’ve rounded up…
Snapping the Sun’s Grand Magnetic Border at 0.3 AU
Out in the solar system, there is a giant rippling curtain of charged particles that is actually the largest structure in our solar system. Known as the Heliospheric Current Sheet…
NASA expands Deep Space Network with giant new dish in California desert
NASA’s long-distance spacecraft-calling network just got a boost. The Deep Space Network (DSN), best known for communicating with distant spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons, added…
Venus is disappearing from the evening sky — here’s how to see it while you can
Soon, the sky’s most glamorous evening performer will take its leave. Since late March, Venus has been the unmistakable “Evening Star,” gleaming shortly after sunset and stealing attention from nearly…
Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today. The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway today…
This Lego Star Wars UCS AT-ST set is cheaper than ever — I’ll always love this chicken walker
You can keep your space camels, the AT-ST is Star Wars’ coolest land vehicle, and now this Lego Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series AT-ST is $39 off at Amazon, the…