"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

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See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time this year on July 20

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 11:00am
The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.
Categories: Astronomy

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 10:20am
On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emeritus Rob Manning to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later.
Categories: Astronomy

10 unique tours and experiences for the 2027 'eclipse of the century'

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 9:00am
From "Star Wars" film sets to baboons in Saudi Arabia, here's how to experience the "eclipse of the century" in style on Aug. 2, 2027.
Categories: Astronomy

Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 8:00am
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight —NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission.
Categories: Astronomy

2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 6:00am
The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth's atmosphere when space weather turns bad.
Categories: Astronomy

Friday night light: SpaceX launch from California sends two dozen new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (video)

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 12:05am
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, July 18, 2025.
Categories: Astronomy

Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: 'Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song'

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 5:00pm
Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice giant Neptune.
Categories: Astronomy

Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 4:00pm
Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.
Categories: Astronomy

The 2025 Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower is upon us! Here's what you need to know

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 3:00pm
The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.
Categories: Astronomy

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds': Jess Bush and Martin Quinn talk feeling comfortable in their characters for Season 3 (exclusive)

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 2:00pm
'I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible, so that a modern day Scottish person could see themselves in space one day.'
Categories: Astronomy

Record-breaking high-altitude shot of sun's surface captured from one of Europe's tallest mountains (photo)

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 2:00pm
"The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable."
Categories: Astronomy

Space station astronauts bid farewell to private Ax-4 crew | On the ISS this week July 14-18, 2025

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 1:00pm
The Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 crews wrapped up their time together as science and maintenance activities continued aboard the International Space Station.
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Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 11:39am
A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park.
Categories: Astronomy

Stratospheric skydiver Felix Baumgartner dies at 56 in tragic paragliding accident

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 11:30am
Baumgartner is most well-known for breaking the sound barrier with his body during a freefall from the stratosphere in 2012.
Categories: Astronomy

See Venus, the moon and fiery star Aldebaran form a dawn triangle this weekend

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 11:00am
Rise and shine! Venus, Aldebaran and the moon team up for a dazzling dawn display.
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The new 'Alien: Earth' trailer is here, and we can't wait to be terrified by xenomorphs once again (video)

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 10:30am
Hulu released a new trailer for "Alien: Earth," a new sci-fi horror miniseries from "Fargo" creator Noah Hawley that premieres on Aug. 12.
Categories: Astronomy

The Vera Rubin Observatory could find dozens of interstellar objects

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 10:00am
As astronomers rush to study a newly discovered comet from beyond our solar system, a powerful new observatory may turn rare interstellar sightings into routine events.
Categories: Astronomy

This excellent value for money star projector is on sale for less than $14

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 9:54am
We've tested numerous star projectors and one of the best value options, the YGiTK Northern Galaxy Lights projector, is 26% off on Amazon, now under $14.
Categories: Astronomy

'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great.' Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra space telescope

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 9:00am
Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is bombarding it with radiation.
Categories: Astronomy

A lunar eclipse steals the show in a colorful sky | Space photo of the day for July 18, 2025

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 8:30am
A lunar eclipse was seen over the U.S. Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope in Chile.
Categories: Astronomy