What is NASA’s MAVEN mission? NASA loses contact Mars orbiter
Here’s what to know about MAVEN, and how NASA lost a signal with the Mars orbiter NASA has…
Voyager 1 will be one light-day, 16 billion miles, from us next year
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as…
The Leonid meteor shower 2025 peaks soon. Here’s what to know.
If you missed the peaks for the Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers, you may soon get another…
Is there a rocket launch today? Watch SpaceX liftoff in California
SpaceX has been contracted to launch the Sentinel-6B satellite into orbit on a civil mission to observe sea…
Blue Origin to launch giant New Glenn rocket again. How to watch
On the eve of the scheduled launch window opening up, here’s how to watch a livestream as the…
Oak Ridge engineer seeks to help make interstellar travel possible
Presenting paper at American Nuclear Society meeting in D.C. Nov. 10 Carolyn Krause | Special to The Oak…
NISAR satellite snaps radar images of Maine, North Dakota. See photos
The two radar images, captured in August by the NISAR satellite, detail portions of both Maine’s coast and…
Firefly Aerospace rocket explodes on test stand in Texas. See video
Here’s what to know about Firefly Aerospace and its latest ‘mishap’ with its Alpha rocket. Watch rocket test…
Gravitational waves help scientists measure newborn black hole’s ‘kick’
The historic finding comes about a decade after the first detection of gravitational waves performed by a famous…
Auroras from space? NASA astronaut captures southern lights from ISS
Zena Cardman recently caught a glimpse of some auroras aboard the International Space Station and was kind enough…