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Space hurricanes are real — and they wreak more havoc than we thought

Mon, 08/04/2025 - 9:00am
Space hurricanes can shake Earth's magnetic field and scramble satellites without a solar storm in sight.
Categories: Astronomy

Rocket Lab launches private Japanese radar satellite to orbit from New Zealand (video)

Mon, 08/04/2025 - 8:00am
Rocket Lab launched its fifth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS early Tuesday morning (Aug. 5), sending a synthetic aperture radar satellite to orbit.
Categories: Astronomy

Mysterious boost to Earth's spin will make today one of the shortest days on record

Mon, 08/04/2025 - 6:00am
A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea (video)

Mon, 08/04/2025 - 4:07am
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning (Aug. 4), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.
Categories: Astronomy

Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies

Sun, 08/03/2025 - 11:00am
Space weather imposes threats on everything from electrical grids to GPS navigation.
Categories: Astronomy

‘Democratizing space’ is more than just adding new players – it comes with questions around sustainability and sovereignty

Sun, 08/03/2025 - 10:00am
With more countries looking to explore space, there is a rising hope that space is now more accessible for diverse participants.
Categories: Astronomy

See the moon shine alongside red supergiant star Antares after sunset tonight

Sun, 08/03/2025 - 9:00am
The red supergiant star Antares will appear close to the waxing gibbous moon tonight.
Categories: Astronomy

Blue Origin launches crypto billionaire Justin Sun and 5 other people to suborbital space (video)

Sun, 08/03/2025 - 12:01am
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, and five other people to space on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025.
Categories: Astronomy

Scientists scan famous 'Earthrise' crater on mission to find alien life in our solar system

Sat, 08/02/2025 - 12:00pm
A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its alien-hunting instruments during a once-in-a-lifetime flyby.
Categories: Astronomy

August Moon: Here's what to look for during all 4 major moon phases

Sat, 08/02/2025 - 11:00am
Join us on a guided telescope tour of August's moon, featuring distinct targets for each of the four major lunar phases.
Categories: Astronomy

Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a meteor hit Earth: why it needs to be protected

Sat, 08/02/2025 - 10:00am
The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is well preserved, making it a hotspot for space research.
Categories: Astronomy

'Lexx' appeal: A deeply underrated sci-fi classic that was equal parts Farscape, Star Wars, and Red Dwarf

Sat, 08/02/2025 - 9:00am
A band of misfits aboard a stolen planet-killing starship, the wild, weird Lexx is the best 90s sci-fi show you've never seen.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX's Crew-11 astronauts arrive at the International Space Station (video)

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 4:00pm
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission arrived at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Aug. 2), less than 15 hours after lifting off.
Categories: Astronomy

Rookie crewmates kept things fresh for Ax-4 astronaut Peggy Whitson: 'It's always great to relive a little bit of that first time'

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 3:09pm
Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson just extended her American duration record on the International Space Station. She also served as coach to the three rookie astronauts who flew with her.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX just launched disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 2:00pm
SpaceX just launched the Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA — along with an interesting bacterial experiment.
Categories: Astronomy

Satellites are helping protect critically endangered desert elephants. Here's how

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 1:00pm
GPS tracking and high-resolution satellite images are helping humans coexist with endangered elephants in western Namibia.
Categories: Astronomy

Best camera for astro now $300 cheaper: This Nikon bundle comes with plenty of extras

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 12:06pm
The Nikon Z8 was rated as our best overall camera for astrophotography, and is $600 off on Amazon, perfect for capturing the Lyrid meteor shower!
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX launches Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA on milestone Crew Dragon flight (video)

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 12:00pm
SpaceX launched the Crew-11 on Aug. 1, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on the record-breaking sixth flight of its Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
Categories: Astronomy

New discovery at CERN could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 12:00pm
A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.
Categories: Astronomy

Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 11:00am
A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.
Categories: Astronomy