19 May, 2022, 9:30 pm

On Thursday, Boeing will have a second chance at a do-over for the space taxi it has built for NASA. The Starliner capsule will take astronauts to and from the International Space Station, but first it has to complete a ..

18 May, 2022, 3:34 am

NASA’s InSight spacecraft is not quite dead yet. But InSight, a stationary robotic probe on Mars, has been steadily growing weaker as dust accumulates on its solar panels. Mission managers predict that by late ..

15 May, 2022, 2:30 pm

Finally a good reason to stay up on Sunday night: A total lunar eclipse. Lunar watchers throughout the United States can experience some heavenly wonder as Earth’s shadow covers the moon during prime viewing hours ..

12 May, 2022, 9:31 am

What’s going on with our galaxy? Astronomers have long suspected that 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, lurking behind the clouds of dust and gas that shroud the center of the Milky Way, ..

11 May, 2022, 4:30 am

Officials in the United States and Ukraine had long believed that Russia was responsible for the cyberattack against Viasat, but had not formally “attributed” the incident to Russia. While US officials reached their ..

10 May, 2022, 10:19 pm

A House subcommittee is scheduled to hold next week the first open congressional hearing on unidentified aerial vehicles in more than half a century, with testimony from two top defense intelligence officials. The ..

7 May, 2022, 2:30 pm

In space you can’t hear a black hole scream, but apparently you can hear it sing. In 2003 astrophysicists working with NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory detected a pattern of ripples in the X-ray glow..

4 May, 2022, 9:54 pm

Wednesday night into Thursday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch a meteor shower as a multitude of flares potentially burst in the darkness. Meteor showers ..

3 May, 2022, 3:04 am

Catch a falling rocket and bring it back to shore… On Tuesday (it will still be Monday evening in New York), Rocket Lab, a small company with a small rocket, aims to pull off an impressive feat during its latest launch ..

28 April, 2022, 7:11 am

The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And indeed it is. But it doesn’t belong to aliens. Instead, the wreckage is the work of NASA, a component called a backshell that detached during the ..

24 April, 2022, 2:30 pm

Speaking over Zoom, the Daniels proclaimed themselves devoted fans of pop science and cosmology. They sent me a copy of “A Vast Pointless Gyration of Radioactive Rocks and Gas in Which You Happen to Occur (A24 LLC..

21 April, 2022, 9:51 pm

Thursday night into Friday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch a meteor shower as a multitude of flares potentially burst in the darkness. Meteor showers ..

19 April, 2022, 3:45 am

NASA’s new big moon rocket is headed back to the garage for a few small repairs, possibly pushing back its maiden launch to late summer or later. That means NASA is giving up, for now, trying to complete what it ..

15 April, 2022, 2:30 pm

While many — including the two Harvard astronomers — have interpreted Space Command’s statement to NASA as confirmation that the meteor is interstellar, some astronomers believe more data is needed to back up the ..

15 April, 2022, 1:50 am

Last year, scientists announced that they had discovered a colossal comet lingering just inside Neptune’s orbit. They estimated its icy core to be between 62 and 125 miles long, based on its brightness. If the ..

11 April, 2022, 8:12 am

Maybe you’ve wondered as I have: Is there a point to rocketing rich guys like Jeff Bezos and the “Star Trek” actor William Shatner into space? Wendy Whitman Cobb, an Air Force political scientist for space, says ..

9 April, 2022, 1:53 am

On Friday, a retired NASA astronaut and three paying customers set off on a journey to the International Space Station. The mission is the first to go to the space station on which all of the passengers are private ..

8 April, 2022, 5:23 pm

The last orbital tourist flight to launch from the United States, Inspiration4, was chartered by Jared Isaacman, a billionaire who decided to give opportunities to three people who never could have afforded the trip for ..

7 April, 2022, 10:30 am

Astronomers have been leapfrogging each other into the past lately. Last week, a group using the Hubble Space Telescope announced they had discovered what could be the most distant and earliest star ever seen, nicknamed ..

5 April, 2022, 11:11 pm

Three Russian astronauts were not making a political statement when they boarded the International Space Station in mid-March yellow flight suits with blue highlights, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, according to a ..

4 April, 2022, 4:57 am

NASA on Sunday morning cut short a practice countdown for its new megarocket, the Space Launch System. It is a key component of upcoming missions to return astronauts to the moon, and the agency said there was a problem ..

2 April, 2022, 8:55 pm

The head of Russia’s space agency said on Saturday that he would submit a proposal to the Russian government to end cooperation on the International Space Station program. On his Telegram social media account, ..

2 April, 2022, 2:30 pm

Luis Calçada, a science visualization artist who works with the European Southern Observatory, chose another hot Jupiter: Vega b. “This star, which is only 25 light-years away from us, is central to Carl Sagan’s ..

31 March, 2022, 12:02 am

Star light, star bright, how far you look tonight. Astronomers announced on Wednesday the discovery of the farthest and oldest star ever seen, a dot of light that shined 12.9 billion years ago, or just 900 million years ..

30 March, 2022, 5:25 pm

After initial medical checks, the astronauts rest for a while in tents before traveling by helicopter to the airport, where Mr. Vande Hei and his NASA colleagues will get on a Gulfstream jet and take off. About 24 hours ..

30 March, 2022, 6:26 am

Late on Tuesday evening, Mark Vande Hei, like many NASA astronauts before him, will enter a Russian spacecraft docked at the International Space Station for the return trip to Earth. The space station, orbiting about 250..

29 March, 2022, 8:30 pm

In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave humanity its only close-up of Pluto. The spacecraft found that the dwarf planet, far from being a featureless and frigid orb, was an ostentatious world with epic ..

24 March, 2022, 4:19 am

It won’t just be SpaceX going to the moon if NASA officials get their wish. That could be a boon to the space dreams of Jeff Bezos. As part of Artemis, NASA’s program to send astronauts back to the moon, the ..

22 March, 2022, 2:19 am

OneWeb, a British satellite internet company that canceled rocket launches with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, is turning to SpaceX to send broadband satellites into space. The alliance, announced on Monday by ..

21 March, 2022, 9:52 pm

Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet catastrophically colliding with Earth always feature a key scene: a solitary astronomer spots the errant space chunk hurtling toward us, a solitary astronomer spots the errant ..

18 March, 2022, 5:20 pm

Pete Davidson, the “Saturday Night Live” comedian and actor, will no longer travel to the edge of space on the next Blue Origin spaceflight, the company said late Thursday. The company had announced this week that its ..

18 March, 2022, 4:37 pm

NASA’s giant new moon rocket is finally at the launchpad, although it is yet to be determined when it might finally leave Earth. For the first time on Thursday evening, a fully stacked Space Launch System rocket ..

18 March, 2022, 2:14 am

Dr. Parker, he said, was happy when people pointed out a mistake in his calculations but not pleased when people accepted prevalent scientific assumptions without question. “He had little patience for ‘It’s ..

14 March, 2022, 11:40 pm

The “Saturday Night Live” actor Pete Davidson will travel to the edge of space next week on the next Blue Origin spaceflight, the company said on Monday. Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, said on ..

13 March, 2022, 10:40 am

The planned launch in 2022 of a European space mission with Russia to land a robot on Mars is now “very unlikely,” the European Space Agency said on Monday. The likely postponement of the mission is a result ..

13 March, 2022, 10:40 am

Several years ago, on a cold, mid-March evening at about 10 pm, I took my dogs out for a walk beyond the lights of our home in Carbondale, Colo. The sky was ablaze with stars, and as I looked up for the Big Dipper and ..

13 March, 2022, 10:40 am

This interview is part of our latest Women and Leadership special report, which highlights women making significant contributions to the major stories unfolding in the world today. The conversation has been edited and ..

13 March, 2022, 10:40 am

“I believed then and I believe now that those contacts are of high importance,” he said in an email. “However, what Putin and the Russian military have done in the name of the Russian Federation is so ..

4 March, 2022, 10:40 am

OneWeb, a satellite internet company partly owned by the British government, has canceled an upcoming satellite launch using a Russian rocket and suspended all future launches that relied on Russia, the company announced..

4 March, 2022, 7:22 am

OneWeb, a satellite internet company partly owned by the British government, has canceled an upcoming satellite launch using a Russian rocket and suspended all future launches that relied on Russia, the company announced..

26 February, 2022, 12:32 am

Venus is so hot that its surface glows visibly at night through its thick clouds. That is what pictures taken by NASA’s Parker Space Probe have revealed. The planet’s average temperature hovers around 860 ..

16 January, 2022, 10:40 am

किसी भी रात में, उज्ज्वल शहर की रोशनी से दूर, एक मौका है जब आप एक उल्का के ऊपर उड़ते हुए आकाश में एक सुंदर स्ट्रीक शूट देखेंगे। लेकिन साल भर बिखरी हुई विशेष तिथियों पर, आकाश पर नजर रखने वालों को कई तरह की चमक दिखाई दे ..

16 January, 2022, 10:40 am

मंगल ग्रह पर रोबोटिक मिशन और अंतरिक्ष पर्यटन में प्रगति 2021 की अंतरिक्ष गतिविधियों पर हावी रही। लेकिन 2022 में, चंद्रमा के बाहर खड़े होने की संभावना है, क्योंकि कंपनियां और सरकारें विभिन्न चंद्रमा से जुड़े अंतरिक्ष यान ..

16 January, 2022, 10:40 am

ओह, हाँ, मैं इसे पहले देखना पसंद करूंगा, लेकिन ऐसा होने वाला नहीं था। मिशनों की कुछ श्रृंखलाएँ इतनी बड़ी हैं कि उन्हें रणनीतिक मिशन कहा जाता है। उनके लिए वास्तव में होने के लिए, सितारों को संरेखित करना होगा। आपको इसे प्..

16 January, 2022, 10:40 am

यहां जानिए 2022 में स्पेसफ्लाइट में क्या हो सकता है। बड़े पैमाने पर रॉकेट दहाड़ेंगे इस आने वाले वर्ष में, दो रॉकेट जो कभी अंतरिक्ष में नहीं गए हैं – नासा स्पेस लॉन्च सिस्टम और स्पेसएक्स स्टारशिप – के उठने की ..

15 January, 2022, 10:13 pm

धूमकेतु का सिर अक्सर हरा चमकता है; पूंछ ज्यादातर नहीं करता है। इसमें धूमकेतु लियोनार्ड भी शामिल है, जिसने सोमवार को सूर्य के सबसे नजदीकी मार्ग बनाया और फिर से दूर जा रहा है। वैज्ञानिकों की एक टीम अब इस बहु-रंगीन व्यवहार ..

15 January, 2022, 10:13 pm

पिछले नवंबर में, चीन के युतु -2 चंद्र रोवर ने चंद्रमा के दूर की ओर कुछ जिज्ञासु देखा। छवि धुंधली थी, लेकिन यह अचूक थी: वस्तु चंद्रमा की सतह पर बैठे घन की तरह दिखती थी। इसका आकार सिर्फ एक चाँद की चट्टान होने के लिए बहुत ..

15 January, 2022, 10:13 pm

अंतरिक्ष में लॉन्च किया गया अब तक का सबसे शक्तिशाली टेलीस्कोप एक जटिल असेंबली प्रक्रिया के अंत में पहुंच गया है जिसने खगोलविदों को हफ्तों तक किनारे पर रखा है। क्रिसमस की सुबह के प्रक्षेपण के बाद से, जेम्स वेब स्पेस टेलीस..

15 January, 2022, 10:12 pm

खगोलविद फिर से सांस लेने लगे हैं। दो हफ्ते पहले, अब तक की सबसे शक्तिशाली अंतरिक्ष वेधशाला आकाश में गर्जना करती थी, जो एक स्तंभ पर पतले प्लास्टिक के दर्पण, तार, मोटर, केबल, कुंडी और विलो शीट के कसकर लिपटे पैकेज में खगोलवि..