File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is gearing up for its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from the West Coast in
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is gearing up for its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from the West Coast in
Astronomers may be starting to get the goods on lava planets. These fiery worlds share a similar density to Earth but orbit so close to their host stars that their
A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, when
Credit: NASA NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is courting the Pentagon’s attention with a number of space technologies it says could support Golden Dome for America, the Defense Department’s
Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from Earth — and for the first time in such a nearby galaxy, watched as a
It’s that time of year once again. August sees warm nights, with late summer campers out awaiting that ‘Old Faithful’ of annual meteor showers: the August Perseids. While 2025 also
Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim Lovell Credit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed
Supersonic commercial travel could soon be coming to the U.S. following a new executive order lifting a 52-year ban on overland commercial supersonic flights. While supersonic flights could cross the
White dwarfs are the stellar remnants left behind by stars after they run out of hydrogen and cease fusion. Only a small number of them are “high-mass white dwarfs” more