WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the U.S. military’s latest Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite on May 30. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the U.S. military’s latest Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite on May 30. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) excels at a lot of things, but there are two things it does better than any other scientific instrument in human history: spotting early
Once feared as a threat to Earth, the asteroid Apophis is now considered to pose a rare exploration opportunity — if space agencies can act in time. The 1,100-foot-wide (340
With its sweeping tempo and ethereal melody, Austrian composer Johann Strauss II’s “The Blue Danube” waltz has become synonymous with outer space and science fiction ever since it was chosen
More than 200 climate and weather scientists from across the U.S. are taking part in a marathon livestream on YouTube, planning to share their scientific work and answer questions from
A meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth’s atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. (Image credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Dai) What is it? A bright meteor, also
Imagine standing on a mountain peak, the horizon stretching infinitely before you, when suddenly your eyes catch a glimpse of the world beyond. With the 80×100 Monocular Telescope, you can
SpaceX needs to figure out what happened on the ninth test flight of its Starship megarocket, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decreed. Flight 9, which lifted off from
AMSTERDAM — Despite a surge of interest in Europe in establishing autonomy in space systems, there remains skepticism that one of the biggest efforts along those lines, a communications satellite
The Varginha UFO encounter, which unfolded in January 1996, remains one of the most compelling and enigmatic cases in the annals of ufology, drawing attention from investigators and enthusiasts around






