After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours. While
After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours. While
Space is one of the most popular settings for video games, and it’s easy to see why. The wonder, the mystery, and getting to fly awesome spaceships. We’re focusing on
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most
Crew-11 was the eleventh operational crewed mission that SpaceX has launched for NASA under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP), a partnership launched in the 2010s to return astronaut launches
Hurricane season has a new contender, and it’s swirling above the poles. Behold, the space hurricane. Just like its terrestrial namesake, it spins in vast spirals and has a calm,
Rocket Lab launched a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS early Tuesday morning (Aug. 5). An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-12 satellite, nicknamed Kushinada-I, lifted
The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the Northern Hemisphere. On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Earth’s solar day will be ever so slightly shorter than
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. “India is on the Moon,” S. Somanath, chairman of the