As Comet Leonard bid farewell to Earth and flew past Venus, a sun-studying spacecraft flew through the comet's long tail, giving humans a new perspective on the icy wanderer.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination. Let's celebrate the team that got it there (op-ed)
The successes notched by Webb, the biggest and most complex space telescope ever launched, reflect the grit and unity of thousands of people who worked together to place it in the heavens.
Crater tree rings
Image: Crater tree rings
This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 28 – February 5
The Winter Triangle, the Goat Star and the Kids, Orion nearing his peak standing on the giant Hare over the difficult Dove... there's plenty to occupy you in the evening even as most of the planets have migrated over to dawn.
Ariane 6 central core set for assembly
The lower stage of ESA’s next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle has been installed on the assembly line at Europe’s Spaceport behind the upper stage. It is now time to join the two horizontally to create the central core of Ariane 6 in readiness for the first combined tests on the launch pad.
Earth from Space: Lesotho
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho – a small, land-locked country surrounded entirely by South Africa.
Does the Andromeda Galaxy Harbor a Mid-weight Black Hole?
New observations suggest a black hole 100,000 times the mass of the Sun lurks in the center of a globular cluster of the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Higgs boson could have kept our universe from collapsing
The Higgs boson particle could have kept our universe from collapsing within a larger multiverse, physicists say.
SpaceX snags $102 million contract to rocket military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world: report
SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket.
China's second launch of the year puts radar satellite in orbit
China launched the first of a pair of radar satellites that will provide important geological data following earthquakes and landslides.
SpaceX Rocket Booster to Hit the Moon on March 4th
A discarded Falcon 9 upper stage rocket booster will impact Hertzsprung Crater on the lunar farside on March 4th.
Animals in space
The first animals reached space in 1947, but it wasn't until 1960 that animals orbited Earth and landed safely.
Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to launch of Italian radar satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The mission will launch a radar remote sensing satellite for Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation constellation. Follow us on Twitter.
New NASA video honors fallen astronauts of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia
NASA released a new video today (Jan. 27) to remember the three crews and other fallen astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.
Water on Mars may have flowed for a billion years longer than thought
New evidence finds substantial water on Mars flowed as recently as 2 billion years ago.
Spacecraft anomaly stalls Astroscale space debris cleanup test
Astroscale has suspended its ELSA-d demonstration mission in Earth orbit after detecting "anomalous spacecraft conditions," the Japanese startup announced on Twitter Wednesday (Jan. 26).
'X particle' from the dawn of time detected inside the Large Hadron Collider
The particle was found by smashing billions of lead atoms into each other at extreme speeds.
NASA's Lucy asteroid spacecraft still has a wonky solar array as it flies through space
Three months after launch, a new NASA asteroid spacecraft is still getting settled into its life beyond Earth.
SpaceX gives converted Falcon Heavy side booster new life
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a booster stage converted from two previous Falcon Heavy missions, rolls through NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 8 toward its launch pad. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography
A converted SpaceX side booster that flew on two Falcon Heavy missions in 2019 will launch again Thursday as the first stage of a single-stick Falcon 9 rocket set to lift off from Cape Canaveral with an Italian radar imaging satellite.
Ten sci-fi movie monsters that could destroy humanity
Many sci-fi movie monsters have tried to end the human race, but which ones should we really be worried about?
Unistellar’s Plans for Science and Astronomy in 2022
Unistellar’s eVscope has proven its ability to do serious astronomy, with more to come in 2022.
