File photo of a previous Astra rocket on a launch pad in Alaska. Credit: Astra
Tests are beginning this week at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for the first flight of Astra’s small satellite launcher from the Florida spaceport, following the company’s successful November demonstration mission from Alaska.
Just weeks after the excitement of launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is already seeking focus in space.
A huge asteroid will safely whiz by our planet next week.
China’s Chang’e-5 lunar lander has found evidence of hydroxyl (OH) on the Moon. Hydroxyl is a close chemical cousin of water, H2O. While several other orbital missions have detected OH on the Moon previously, Chang’e-5 marks the first time it has been detected by a spacecraft sitting on the lunar surface.
The spacecraft is riding out a dust storm, but the agency said it hopes to resume normal operations next week.
It’s another first for astronomy.
NASA may need more astronauts to meet its human spaceflight goals over the coming years, according to a new report from the agency's investigative office.
Earth is surrounded by a vast bubble about 1,000 light-years wide whose borders drive the formation of all nearby young stars, a new study finds.
A central aspect of galactic evolution is that they must eat or be eaten. Dark energy strives to push galaxies apart, but gravity tries to pull them together. As a result, galaxies tend to form into local groups. As these superclusters of galaxies become more isolated due to cosmic expansion, they gravitationally turn on each other, and in time the largest galaxies of the group will consume the smaller ones. The Milky Way is one of the larger galaxies in our local group, and so it has consumed smaller galaxies in the past. But piecing together the history of these galactic meals is a real challenge.
A detailed study of 12 streams of stars swirling in and around the Milky Way will ultimately help shed light on our galaxy's dark matter halo.
Some of the agency's Earth-observing satellites have been in operation since the late 1990s or early 2000s.
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Water was spotted on the moon nearly 15 years ago, but it was detected in real time on the lunar surface only by orbiters before now.
The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is leaking.
In 1866 the American astronomer Daniel Kirkwood was studying all the known asteroids, which at the time amounted to several hundred. If you just look at a snapshot of the solar system, there’s nothing that particularly stands out about the asteroids. They appear to have all sorts of random positions and random orbits within the main asteroid belt, which sits halfway between Mars and Jupiter.
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Hundreds of artifacts from NASA's Apollo lunar landings are set to touch down in Miami as part of "Space Adventure: The Arrival of Man on the Moon," an immersive experience.
A newly discovered "mini" supermassive black hole could help reveal some of the secrets behind the biggest black holes in the cosmos.
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk just gave us a great look at the "launch and catch tower" for the company's massive Starship Mars rocket.
To date, a total of 4,884 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,659 systems, with another 8,414 additional candidates awaiting confirmation. In the course of studying these new worlds, astronomers have noted something very interesting about the “rocky” planets. Since Earth is rocky and the only known planet where life can exist, astronomers are naturally curious about this particular type of planet. Interestingly, most of the rocky planets discovered so far have been many times the size and mass of Earth.
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