It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

— Plato

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US Space Force picks Rocket Lab and Stoke Space to compete for national security launches

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 12:00pm
Private launch companies Rocket Lab and Stoke Space have been selected to compete for future U.S. national security space launches.
Categories: Astronomy

Space miso is nuttier than Earth miso — but it's still miso

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 11:00am
Scientists have successfully fermented miso aboard the International Space Station, marking the first deliberate food fermentation in space that may open up new culinary possibilities for astronauts on long-term missions.
Categories: Astronomy

You can still get 73% Starz for three months and watch some Marvel content following the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 10:37am
This streaming deal is a great alternative to Disney Plus as you can get three months of Starz for just $2.99 and watch Marvel content for less.
Categories: Astronomy

Incredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 10:00am
A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Categories: Astronomy

Drone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 9:00am
A California man has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and photographing the installation.
Categories: Astronomy

Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 6:00am
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.
Categories: Astronomy

Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 5:00am
Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here's why scientists say this is something to track.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 6:06pm
NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.
Categories: Astronomy

New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 4:00pm
Check out this peek at new alien abduction thriller "Watch the Skies" coming to theaters May 9.
Categories: Astronomy

'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 3:22pm
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.
Categories: Astronomy

Rare 'double sunrise' captured in Canada by intrepid solar eclipse chasers (photos)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 2:00pm
Cloud-dodging eclipse chasers in New Brunswick and Québec, Canada, captured the solar horns, reflections and all kinds of weird views as the sun rose partially eclipsed.
Categories: Astronomy

Déjà vu: President Trump nominates Greg Autry again to be NASA's financial chief

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 1:39pm
President Trump has nominated space policy expert Greg Autry to be NASA's chief financial officer, as he did back in 2020 to no avail.
Categories: Astronomy

Cryptocurrency billionaire watches SpaceX rocket launch on the way to his own SpaceX rocket launch

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 1:05pm
Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his Fram2 private astronaut crew got a two-for-one deal when they watched a rocket launch ahead of their own launch on March 31.
Categories: Astronomy

DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 1:00pm
Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.
Categories: Astronomy

Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 12:20pm
Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test aboard the International Space Station.
Categories: Astronomy

Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun's greatest mysteries (video)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 11:00am
Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.
Categories: Astronomy

Watch chilling 1st views of Earth's poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 10:31am
The first images of Earth's poles from the Fram2 Crew Dragon have been uploaded from the orbiting spacecraft, and the views are breathtaking.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet aces key 'cruise control' test ahead of 1st flight

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 10:00am
NASA's "quiet" new supersonic jet, the X-59, just passed a key engine test, bringing it closer to its first flight later this year.
Categories: Astronomy

Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 9:00am
The JWST was used in a creative way to capture direct images of distant worlds.
Categories: Astronomy

Sun unleashes powerful M5.6 solar flare and Earth is in the firing line — are auroras incoming?

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 7:50am
After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?
Categories: Astronomy