SpaceX won its first contract for Starshield, the defense-focused version of Starlink, from the U.S. Space Force.
JACKSON, Wyo. — “There’s a full moon rising, let’s go dancing in the light…” The full moon Neil Young made famous in 1992 is rising over Jackson Hole across the next couple of nights. According…
New observations have discovered that the black hole in M87, the first black hole ever imaged, is actually spinning.
Researchers completed a complex simulation that supports the idea that the giant planet’s jewelry emerged hundreds of millions of years ago, not billions.
The rings of Saturn are one of the most striking features of our solar system, and now scientists have discovered their secret origin!
Space Force will spend $70 million on Musk's Starshield satellites.
A rare annular solar eclipse is coming to the U.S.
SpaceX is set to close the third quarter of 2023 with its 70th launch of…
The Guardian reports that scientists discovered a spinning supermassive black hole located 55m light years from Earth. The black hole … Continue reading "Monster Black Hole Confirmed Spinning In Groundbreaking Discovery"
Four institutions will become stewards of the observatory as it becomes an education center.
Even though the National Science Foundation announced last year that it would not rebuild or replace the iconic Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico — which collapsed in 2020 – a glimmer of hope remained…
Nature - The US National Science Foundation announces plan to use the historic site for biology and computer science education.
A NASA review board raised concerns around the Mars Sample Return mission’s budget, scheduling and organization.
Nature - NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected valuable samples, but a new report says the plan to fetch them is unworkable.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has finally returned home from a 371-day stay on the International Space Station — a record for an American — after being trapped when his ride home was damaged.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx traveled almost 4 billion miles to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu. Scientists hope to learn about our solar system's origins.
The supernova, pinpointed by amateur astronomers, could prove to be a lynchpin in our understanding of massive star deaths.
The black dust scattered around the avionics deck is just a hint of what's inside OSIRIS-REx's sample canister.
Scientists from the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva have succesfully measured the direct influence of gravity on antimatter for the first time in history.
After a seven-year round trip, NASA's OSIRIS-REx brought asteroid samples to Earth on September 24. Why are such samples studied?
San Antonio and the Hill Country are in line to get a great view of the annular eclipse.
By sampling some of the oldest rock in the solar system, the OSIRIS-REx mission could revise the story of the origins of life.
Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the 'monster' M87 black hole wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.
By some estimates, the asteroid could be more valuable than the entire world economy.
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The liftoff, the eighth for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, is scheduled for Oct. 5.
SpaceX is set to launch 22 Starlink v2 Mini internet communication satellites to low-Earth orbit on its Starlink Group 6-19 mission.
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On Thursday evening, the year’s last full supermoon — a harvest moon — will glow near the horizon just after sunset.
Black dust and debris were found by NASA scientists and engineers inside the canister containing the first astroid sample retrieved from deep space in American history.
Two decades of Chandra Observatory data reveal the aftermath of the Eta Carinae stellar eruption of 1838.
Supercomputer simulations show that a satellite strike could be the source of Saturn's rings.
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company based in Cedar Park, announced this month that they broke the record for rocket launch speed. They prepped the payload for a rocket, na…
That SpaceX is emerging as an important defense contractor for the Pentagon is increasingly evident.
Researchers said on Wednesday they have demonstrated for the first time that antimatter responds to gravity the same way matter does — by falling.
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After concerns raised about Musk’s role as a defense contractor.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
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The company said it plans to send 22 more Starlink satellites into orbit for its global high-speed internet network.
CASPER, Wyo. — A unique astronomical event is on the horizon for Casper and surrounding areas. On Oct.14, an annular solar eclipse, commonly known as the
Newly published JWST data reveals that sorting out starlight from measurements of the planet TRAPPIST-1b will be surprisingly difficult.
The first black hole humanity has ever imaged has also provided us with what researchers are calling "unequivocal evidence" that black holes spin.
A 'ring of fire' eclipse is coming to Oregon in just a few weeks. Here's everything you need to know including when and where to see it
The Harvest Moon rises on Sept. 28. Here's what you need to know.
Rising on Friday, Sept. 29, the Harvest Moon will be joined in the sky by our solar system’s two largest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and its smallest, Mercury.
The launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is being delayed a week due to allow "verifications" of parameters used by the spacecraft's thrusters, the space agency confirmed Thursday. Liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket…
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and two Russian cosmonauts undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth early Wednesday, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out an unexpected yearlong stay in…
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut return to Earth after an extended tour of duty aboard the International Space Station. The landing marked the end of a 370-day-21-hour-22-minute-long mission. It was the third longest…
Nearly two weeks after the successful launch of a payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Space System Command, leaders from the branch along with launch provider, Firefly Aerospace, and satellite manufacturer, Millennium Space Systems, touted…
Outgoing space station commander Sergei Prokopyev and his two Soyuz crewmates, co-pilot Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, packed up Tuesday for a fiery plunge back to Earth early Wednesday to close out a…
SpaceX launched its 42nd Starlink delivery mission of the year with a Falcon 9 lifting off from the West Coast carrying a batch of 21 satellites at 1:48 a.m. PDT (4:48 a.m. EDT / 0848…
A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted touchdown in Utah in the final chapter…
Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith speaks with some of the key figures at Lockheed Martin, who helped bring the OSIRIS-REx mission to life and will continue working with both the spacecraft and the asteroid samples after…
Live coverage as a capsule lands in the U.S. Army test range in the Utah desert carrying samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx (short for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Saturday night with a first-stage booster making its 17th flight. It was only the second to reach this milestone. Liftoff, with 22 Starlink satellites occurred at 11:38…
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