The eighth Falcon Heavy to fly was raised to launch configuration overnight on Wednesday as it prepares to send the Psyche spacecraft off to the asteroid of the same name as early as Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Image: Adam Bernstein
With the exception of the weather, NASA and SpaceX said at a prelaunch news conference Wednesday everything was ready for the launch the Psyche mission at 10:16 a.m. EDT (1416 UTC) on Thursday, Oct. 12. on a seven-year mission to an asteroid of the same name.
New spacecraft footage from Mars Express shows off a rugged valley on the Red Planet, shaped by volcanic activity from the famous Tharsis region.
The Osiris-REX sample collection team reveals the first look at material collected from the asteroid Bennu.
The International Space Station (ISS) will be retired in 2030 after more than thirty-two years of continuous service. Naturally, there are questions regarding what will replace this station, which has served as a bastion for vital research and inter-agency cooperation in space. In the past, China has indicated that their Tiangong (“heavenly palace”) space station will be a successor and rival to the ISS, offering astronauts from other nations an alternative platform to conduct research in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As part of this plan, China recently announced plans to double the size of Tiangong in the coming years.
Any potential alien messages could be too complicated for humans to understand, but AI trained to detect complex structure in communication could help decipher them for us.
Making room for astronomy in my life has felt like coming home — as if the universe has left a literal light on for me.
NASA has delayed a planned Oct. 12 spacewalk due to a leak of coolant from a Russian module discovered earlier this week. The cause of the leak remains under investigation.
Gaganyaan translates to "celestial vehicle" and is a mission to bring Indian astronauts to space.
The Hyades star cluster is only about 153 light-years away. At that short distance away, it’s visible with the unaided eye in the constellation Taurus. Its proximity gives professional astronomers an easier time observing it than many other objects of interest. Hyades contains hundreds of stars with similar ages—about 625 million years—similar metallicities and similar motions through space.
The asteroid sample hauled to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission contains lots of water and carbon-containing compounds, mission team members announced today (Oct. 11).
Astronomers have seen a shocking wealth of young stars and ice water around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
The Canon EOS R8 is one of the best cameras for astrophotography on the market and this Prime Day, you can grab it with a $340 discount.
Explore constellations and star clusters with these unbelievably affordable binos — save more at B&H Photo (yes, it's cheaper than Amazon Prime Day).
Amazon is offering 32% off this powerful Newtonian telescope, now just $239.20 — ideal for beginners, but you'll need to buy it soon as the deal ends tonight.
An amusing anecdote from Patrick Stewart's new autobiography, 'Making It So: A Memoir.'
Grab the hugely popular Lego Star Wars Luke Skywalker's X-Wing Fighter with a 20% discount when you get it from Amazon today.
Amazon have slashed a whopping $218 off the Holy Stone HS720G drone for Prime Day and it's now less than half price! You don't want to miss this amazing deal.
A new federally funded space junk project aims to detect and monitor tiny pieces of debris, which are currently untrackable.
This big camera deal gives $500 off the Nikon Z7 II for Prime Day — if you're into astrophotography, you don't want to miss this deal before it's gone!
Excellent entry-level binoculars, now even more affordable, this anti-Prime Day binocular deal sheds 25% off its original price.
For many anxious to throw light on unidentified anomalous phenomena, it's all about reliable, truth-revealing, and scientifically rigorous data collection.
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