Mike Massimino Watch Astronaut Mike Massimino Build a Lego Mars Shuttle in Zero Gravityspace.com - Chelsea Gohd In a new video, former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino takes Legos to a whole new altitude. Check it out above! In zero gravity aboard Novespace's Air …
Mike Pence Vice President Pence Chairs Space Council Meeting Tuesday: Watch It Livespace.com - Mike Wall The National Space Council (NSC) will convene for the sixth time Tuesday morning (Aug. 20), and you can watch the proceedings live. Vice President and …
China's Private 'Smart Dragon-1' Rocket Aces 1st Missionspace.com - Mike Wall China's commercial launch industry is really getting off the ground. The private Smart Dragon-1 rocket, built by the China Rocket Co. Ltd., completed …
Asteroids Let's Talk Asteroid Apophis, Planetary Defense and Elon Muskspace.com - Meghan Bartels It's time to talk about Apophis again, I guess. Please calm down first. The asteroid is about 1,100 feet (340 meters) wide, was discovered in 2004 and …
PC Gaming Kerbal Space Program 2 Is Launching in 2020space.com - Phil Savage "Kerbal Space Program 2" has been announced with new features, new planets and, perhaps most surprisingly of all, a new developer. Star Theory …
Satellites China Just Launched a Communications Satellite. Is It in Trouble?space.com - Hanneke Weitering A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched a new communications satellite into orbit today (Aug. 19) — but its days might be numbered. After lifting off …
CubeSats Here's the Story Behind Rocket Lab's 'Look Ma, No Hands' Launch Namespace.com - Meghan Bartels Rocket Lab's Electron mission dubbed "Look Ma, No Hands" blasted off smoothly today (Aug. 19) from a pad in mountainous New Zealand, funny name and …
Boeing Boeing Astronaut Reveals Mission Patches for Starliner Flight Testsspace.com - Robert Z. Pearlman The first astronauts set to launch on Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft now have a mission patch to represent their flight. Chris Ferguson, Boeing's …
Quasars Hubble Telescope Solves a Galactic Identity Crisis for Quasarsspace.com - Passant Rabie Ever since their discovery in the late 1950s, bright beams of galactic light known as quasars — distant objects emitting bright light to the cosmos — …
Satellites Rocket Lab Electron Booster Launches 4 Satellites Into Orbitspace.com - Elizabeth Howell The private spaceflight company Rocket Lab launched four new satellites into orbit in a dazzling predawn liftoff for the U.S Air Force Space Command …
Nebulas Space Seagull! Telescope Captures a Celestial Gull in Flight (Video)space.com - Elizabeth Howell Are those cosmic wings? A new image of the Seagull Nebula shows a shape that looks just like a glittering gull in flight across the night sky. The …
Methane What Secrets Does Titan Hold?space.com - Paul Sutter Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." …
Chesapeake Bay America's Largest Asteroid Impact Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern United Statesspace.com - Brandon Specktor About 35 million years ago, an asteroid traveling nearly 144,000 mph (231,000 km/h) smashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the modern-day town of Cape …
The Avengers Marvel's 'Avengers' Heading on 'Epic Space Adventure' This Novemberspace.com - Chris Arrant Beginning this November, Marvel Comics' "Avengers" title will be heading into outer space to visit a galaxy that doubles as a space prison. Writer …
Rian Johnson Rian Johnson's Star Wars Trilogy Aiming 'Beyond the Legacy Characters'space.com - Chris Arrant "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" writer/director Rian Johnson describes his upcoming Star Wars trilogy as "something that steps beyond the legacy …
Galaxies Hubble Telescope Spots Two Galaxies in a Doomed (but Dazzling) Dancespace.com - Elizabeth Howell Two galaxies are caught in a crazy cosmic dance, pulling at each other in a fresh image from a space telescope icon. Their mutual gravitational …
NASA NASA's Investigating the Impact of Arctic Wildfires on Earth. Here's Whyspace.com - Passant Rabie Using a combination of field and laboratory work, as well as satellite and airborne observations, NASA is launching a study of the effects of Arctic …
NASA NASA Robots Rove Through Caves for Underground DARPA Competition (Video)space.com - Passant Rabie Robots from all over the world are about to go on a subterranean adventure, competing against each other in mining tunnels to determine which ones …
Kylo Ren Kylo Ren Force Grips His Way into 'Star Wars Resistance' Season 2 Trailerspace.com - Chris Arrant The first trailer for the second (and final) season of Disney Channel's "Star Wars Resistance" — and Kylo Ren is joining the show. Take a look …
Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor in Talks for Obi-Wan Kenobi Show on Disney+: Reportspace.com - Chris Arrant Ewan McGregor is in talks to once again play Star Wars' Obi-Wan Kenobi, this time in a Disney+ show, reports Deadline. According to the Hollywood …
Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Spots Purple 'Jellyfish' Star Glowing in Abyss of Deep Spacespace.com - Elizabeth Howell This stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope appears to capture a cosmic jellyfish floating in space, but in reality this structure is no …
Stranger Things 'Stranger Things' Science: What If You Needed to Know Planck's Constant to Save the World?space.com - Amy Thompson Editor's note: This article contains spoilers for the Netflix original series "Stranger Things." Season 3 of the Netflix hit series "Stranger Things" …
SpaceX Big Leap by SpaceX's Starship Prototype Pushed to Next Weekspace.com - Mike Wall It looks like we'll have to wait a little longer to see Starhopper make its biggest leap yet. SpaceX had been hoping to launch Starhopper, an early …
T-shirts Elon Musk Floats 'Nuke Mars' Idea Again (He Has T-Shirts)space.com - Mike Wall Nuking Mars is still on Elon Musk's wish list, it would seem. Four years ago, the SpaceX founder and CEO went on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" …
Superman 'Krypton' Canceled at Syfy: Reportspace.com - George Marston Syfy has canceled its Superman prequel series "Krypton," according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Krypton" will not move forward with a third season. THR …
Parker Solar Probe NASA Sun Probe Spies the Solar Wind in 1st Birthday Photospace.com - Elizabeth Howell This past Monday (Aug. 12), NASA's newest solar probe celebrated its first year in space and began preparing for another close swoop by the sun. The …
NASA The Moon Is Brighter Than the Sun in These NASA Gamma-Ray Telescope Viewsspace.com - Meghan Bartels The sun is the brightest object in our skies — but it wouldn't be if we could see incredibly energetic gamma-rays as well as visible light. That's …
CubeSats Rocket Lab Delays Electron Launch Due to High Windsspace.com - Tariq Malik The private spaceflight company Rocket Lab postponed the launch of an Electron rocket carrying four small satellites Friday (Aug. 16) due to high …
Comets A Doomed Comet Just Fell Into the Sun. Here's the Video.space.com - Chelsea Gohd Yesterday (Aug. 15), the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) watched a comet meet its demise as the dirty snowball dove directly into the sun, …
James Webb Space Telescope Beyond TESS: How Future Exoplanet-Hunters Will Seek Out Strange New Worldsspace.com - Sarah Wells CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Finding exoplanets marks just the beginning of what we can learn from these distant worlds, researchers said. At the first annual …
