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Exploring 'very low Earth orbit': The world's 1st ...
Air-breathing electric propulsion could help satellites explore a new frontier, one that lies quite ...
On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24...
On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic samp...
The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12 will reveal som...
A naked-eye view of the sun's outer atmosphere is the reason eclipse chasers travel the world. Here'...
In 1912, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegen...
In 1912 Alfred Wegener told a Frankfurt lecture hall the continents were still moving. Geologists di...
Here's what to expect from 5 stages of the total s...
From first contact to totality and beyond, this is what will happen during each stage of the Aug. 12...
Psychology says people who apologise for taking up...
The reflex to apologise for existing, in photos, in chats, in conversation, is usually read as humil...
Psychology says the people who seem unbothered by ...
The calm of a person in their sixties often gets read as a thicker skin. The lifespan research on em...
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit fr...
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Aug. 8) from Calif...
'Transformers: The Movie' at 40: the cartoon spin-...
With many fan-favorite Autobots and Decepticons bumped off in the opening act, this was not the big-...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 222 — How to I...
On Episode 222 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by space writer Rich Edwar...
The boiling river of the Peruvian Amazon runs hot ...
Scientists are baffled by a Peruvian river hot enough to kill animals instantly, with no geological ...
Don't miss the crescent moon shine close to the re...
Early risers will catch a spectacular sight in the predawn hours of Aug. 9, as the slender crescent ...
On this day in space! Aug. 8, 1977: Soviet Union's...
Salyut 5 was a Soviet space station and part of the highly-secretive Almaz military space station pr...
Yes, North America gets a solar eclipse on Aug. 12...
The Aug. 12 eclipse won't rival 2024's Great American Eclipse, but millions across the U.S. and Cana...
Assumption-reversal: for two centuries anatomists ...
In 1998, a Swedish-American team examined the brains of five cancer patients who had received a DNA ...
Sky-Watcher SolarQuest mount head review
A brilliantly simple grab-and-go solar mount that finds and follows the sun for you, Sky-Watcher’s S...
In 1955, when a journalist asked Jonas Salk who ow...
On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk told Edward R. Murrow on live television that no one owned the patent ...
At birth, a human infant has roughly 300 separate ...
A newborn arrives with roughly 300 bones held together by cartilage, and an adult has 206. The missi...
SpaceX serious about building factories on the moo...
SpaceX plans to build factories on the moon, using robots to do much of the heavy lifting, Elon Musk...
'Not looking good right now': Starship likely to b...
SpaceX is still towing Starship's upper stage toward shore two weeks after its latest test flight, b...
NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyag...
NASA's Voyager 2 probe, which launched in 1977, can keep operating its last science instruments afte...
Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telesco...
The James Webb Space Telescope's strange "little red dots" may be evolving into spiral galaxies.
How to safely observe eclipses and the solar surfa...
Solar observation is easy with a smart telescope like the Unistellar eQuinox 2 and the matching filt...
NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny cap...
These tiny capes carry some serious technology.
Engineers race to save stricken LINK rescue spacec...
The private LINK spacecraft, which launched last month to save a NASA space telescope, now needs sav...
Chinese company Landspace targets Aug. 10 for hist...
The Chinese commercial launch company Landspace is set for its second attempt to catch an orbital ro...
On this day in space! Aug. 7, 1980: NASA's Viking ...
On Aug. 7, 1980, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft orbiting Mars ended its epic and historic mission to the...
Cosmic treasure chest explodes with baby stars | S...
The Carina Nebula is truly something to behold in this new snapshot.
The UK is about to witness its most spectacular so...
The Aug. 12 eclipse won't bring totality to Britain, but up to 98% of the sun will disappear in one ...
Why you don't need a perfectly clear sky to enjoy ...
Millions will see a deep partial or total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, but there's no need to fixate on...
'1 more step': NASA astronauts conduct 6.5-hour sp...
Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware ...
Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing satel...
Rocket Lab launched its eighth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS on Thursday morni...
'Strange New Worlds' latest 'Hangover'-inspired ep...
Seeking rest or relaxation? You're unlikely to find either on a "Star Trek" holiday
SpaceX rocket's impact crater on the moon spied by...
South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter has spied the crater that a SpaceX rocket blasted out when it sla...
Blue Origin traces origin of huge New Glenn rocket...
Blue Origin has made considerable progress in its New Glenn anomaly investigation, tracing the probl...
On this day in space! Aug. 6, 2012: NASA lands hug...
On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface in a way ne...
Mars rover watches Earth disappear behind Phobos |...
"Phobos crosses the Martian sky three times a day, and Earth is visible for months at a stretch, but...
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 wasn't the first rocket to crash...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage that collided with the moon on Wednesday (Aug. 5), was just t...
In 1890, a German chemist named August Kekulé told...
The famous ouroboros dream Kekulé described in 1890 arrived 25 years after his benzene paper and lef...
Plan your perfect 2026 total solar eclipse experie...
From exact timings to cloud cover warnings, these smartphone apps will help you dial in on the 2026 ...
Where will the total solar eclipse 2026 be visible...
Find out where you can experience totality on Aug. 12, 2026, and which countries will experience a p...
'Warhammer 40,000' animated series coming to Prime...
Henry Cavill will executive produce this spirited spinoff of 2024's 'Secret Level' anthology.
The 'Dark Matter' season 2 trailer is here, and it...
"The box is the most powerful thing ever created."
A SpaceX rocket just crashed into the moon. Now, t...
Early this morning, a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at seven times the speed of sound. Now, lu...
Astronomers witness the strange final moments of a...
Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealin...
Curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycombs on Mar...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted surprising honeycomb-like shapes in the Red Planet soil while ex...
On this day in space! Aug. 5, 2011: NASA's Juno sp...
On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet...
Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts dea...
Mars dust is known to contain various carcinogens, such as silica and numerous heavy metals. How wil...
'The Ninth Jedi' review: This anime spin-off aband...
Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi may not be the Star Wars TV show you were looking for, ...
Heading to Europe or the U.K. for the Aug. 12 sola...
We've rounded up the best solar eclipse glasses so you can watch safely from wherever you are.
