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How Will we Receive Signals From Interstellar Probes, Like Starshot?

By Matthew Williams - May 26, 2020 09:17 PM UTC | Space Exploration
A new study takes a look at the challenges of sending and receiving data over interstellar distances using tight-beam lasers
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Spot SpaceX's Crew Dragon After This Weekend's Historic Launch

By David Dickinson - May 26, 2020 02:28 PM UTC | Space Exploration
How to see SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo One mission in orbit Wednesday night.
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Tiny Cardboard Aircraft Could Fly in the Skies of Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - May 26, 2020 02:10 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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NASA and SpaceX Gearing Up For Historic Crew Dragon Launch This Week

By Matthew Williams - May 26, 2020 02:08 PM UTC | Space Exploration
NASA and SpaceX are gearing up for the Demo-2 mission this week, which will see the Crew Dragon launch from the Kennedy Space Center and rendezvous with the ISS.
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The Coast of Antarctica is Starting to Turn Green

By Evan Gough - May 25, 2020 05:43 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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This is an Actual Image of a Planet-Forming Disc in a Distant Star System

By Evan Gough - May 25, 2020 02:01 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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U.S. Space Force is Looking For a Place to Put its Headquarters

By Matthew Williams - May 24, 2020 04:34 PM UTC | Space Policy
The US Space Force has announced that it is looking for a place to establish its new HQ, and is encouraging communities across the US to nominate themselves based on a set of criteria.
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Maybe a Fleet of Tiny Spacecraft Could Help Detect a Primordial Black Hole Planet 9

By Brian Koberlein - May 24, 2020 02:50 PM UTC | Black Holes
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The SpaceX Starship Could Fly This Summer!

By Matthew Williams - May 22, 2020 10:29 PM UTC | Space Exploration
Despite an unexpected fire during the latest static fire test, SpaceX's Starship prototype is alive and well and closer to flight-testing.
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OSIRIS-REx Will Collect a Sample from Bennu on October 20th

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2020 05:41 PM UTC | Missions
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Ocean Circulation Might Be the Key to Finding Habitable Exoplanets

By Evan Gough - May 22, 2020 03:42 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Magnetic north is migrating towards Siberia. Here's why

By Paul Sutter - May 22, 2020 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Space Force is Starting to Train its Soldiers to Fight... in Space?

By Matthew Williams - May 21, 2020 07:06 PM UTC | Space Policy
The US Space Force just announced that they will begin training so its new officers can become specialists in specific fields, like orbital warfare, electronic warfare, and space battle management.
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Weekly Space Hangout: May 20, 2020 — Dr. Sarah McAnulty from Skype A Scientist

By nancygraz - May 21, 2020 04:18 PM UTC | Site News
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Astronomers Are Sure These Are Two Newborn Planets Orbiting a Distant Star

By Evan Gough - May 21, 2020 01:49 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Jupiter is so Big that our Solar System almost had two Suns

By Paul Sutter - May 21, 2020 08:18 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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NASA is Giving the SLS a "Green Run" to Prepare it for Launch in Late 2021

By Matthew Williams - May 20, 2020 08:39 PM UTC | Missions
Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center have resumed tests of the Core Stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) in anticipation of its inaugural launch next year.
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40 Years Ago, Mount St. Helens Blew its Top Off

By Evan Gough - May 20, 2020 05:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses Discovered to Help Study the Distant Universe

By Brian Koberlein - May 20, 2020 12:30 PM UTC | Cosmology
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Venus Meets Mercury This Weekend in a Fine Dusk Conjunction

By David Dickinson - May 20, 2020 12:29 PM UTC | Planetary Science
What's that? You say you've never seen elusive Mercury for yourself? You won't have an excuse after this weekend, when the innermost world meets brilliant Venus at dusk, for one of the best planetary conjunctions for 2020.
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