SpaceX, NASA delay next astronaut launch to ISS due to leak on Dragon spacecraft
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 this day in space! Aug. 31, 1965: NASA’s ginormous Super Guppy carrier plane takes 1st flight like a flying whale
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’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
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,…
What Can Happen When a Rapidly Spinning Star Meets a Black Hole?
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…
Looking for Earth 2.0 in Binary Systems
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…
Roman Commissioning
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…
High-Orbit Laser Satellites Could Guide Future Lunar Travelers
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.…
7-stage journey reveals how falling space rocks survive air
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…
Gardening the Moon’s Cosmic Archives
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…
Trump calls in to NASA press conference to celebrate launch of Roman Space Telescope, a mission he tried to cancel
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…