Days before an expected Senate confirmation to the role, Trump has pulled the rug on Elon Musk’s pick to become the next administrator of NASA after being told the nominee had donated to prominent Democrats MORE
The Starship separated successfully from the booster which was meant to be reusable. However the booster exploded after separation; The Starship later began spiraling. Reuters Summary: Context is all. CBS reporting includes the booster issues. MORE
From the Seattle Times, “Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew MORE
BBC reports: A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. This is the second, and more promising, time MORE
We may finally get some data reporting the reasons we really don’t want to live on the Red Planet. Ever. The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong MORE
The two NASA astronauts who flew Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the space station this month have been in orbit longer than anticipated — and will stay there for now. (NBC) Per NBC: NASA states the reasons MORE
Major Bill Anders flew in space just once, and it was the first time humans ever left low Earth orbit. The “Genesis Flight” crew of Apollo 8 completed the first manned space mission to orbit MORE
OK, Tone says we can stay home from work…..you heard it here first….. Ah, the memories….. April 8, 2024, the day of the total solar eclipse. The next occurrence of this specific kind of eclipse MORE
Officials in Kaufman County, Texas issued a disaster declaration Wednesday ahead of next month’s total solar eclipse, saying they expect the county’s population to double and for traffic to be a major issue. “This dramatic MORE
As Women’s History Month continues, Astronaut Jeanette Epps made history yesterday as she launched into space with three crew members on a mission to the International Space Station. After two scrubbed launches scheduled this weekend, MORE
Astronomers discovered a quasar, which is the “brightest of its kind” and the “most luminous object ever observed,” using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), a statement said. From Newsweek: Astronomers have MORE
The Quadrantids, which peak during early-January each year, are considered to be one of the best annual meteor showers. This year, they will peak tonight through tomorrow morning, though they are active from mid-December, 2023 MORE
Things are looking up for what promises to be the best meteor shower of 2023. For those who are hoping to get a view of the peak of the Geminid meteor shower overnight tonight, it appears that MORE
The carbon-rich materials in the sample are intriguing because asteroids like Bennu might have seeded Earth with the building blocks for life. The NASA mission that collected the samples was named Osiris-Rex — a shortening of MORE
On Saturday, Oct. 14, the moon will partially block the sun, creating an annular solar eclipse and turning our star into a cosmic “ring of fire.” The “ring of fire” phenomenon will be visible to MORE
. . . .the existence of what appear to be massive and mature galaxies during the universe’s infancy defied expectations – too big and too soon. So scientists were left to question the accepted ideas about the MORE
The tracking of UFO or “unidentified flying objects,” have become the stuff of science fiction, pseudo science and stories of aliens from outer space. Per NPR: While unearthly-seeming sightings in the sky aren’t uncommon, the MORE
According to Space.com, “The Luna-25 spacecraft was supposed to maneuver itself into its final pre-landing orbit around the moon (Aug. 19), ahead of a touchdown attempt on Monday (Aug. 21) or thereabouts. But the probe encountered MORE
“Locating Headquarters U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs ultimately ensures peak readiness in the space domain for our nation during a critical period,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement. “It will MORE
“One of the great things about Webb is every time we see a new result we’re all just sitting around the monitors going ‘Wow.’ I mean, it’s really an amazing mission for me when I think about MORE
The most powerful solar storm in nearly six years slammed Earth on March 24, surprising NOAA’s National Space Weather Service with a magnitude not expected. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, originally issued a MORE
A cash flow cascading from the heavens is a provisionary but promising harvest from asteroid mining. It’s already a “claim jumping” enterprise with assertions that billions, trillions, even quadrillions of dollars are looming in deep MORE
A documentary crew searching the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida for a World War II-era wreckage uncovered a very different historical artifact. While digging in the seabed, crew members from MORE
A northern California man has claimed that his home was destroyed by a meteorite on Friday, after several witnesses reportedly saw a ball of light descending from the sky. “I heard a big bang. I started to MORE
From its perch one million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescopehas peered deep into our solar system to capture images of Neptune. These new views show seven of the distant planet’s 14 known moons, but MORE