After receiving commands from flight controllers on the ground, the uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the zenith port of the International Space Station’s Harmony…
A U.S. cargo craft is being loaded with hardware and sensitive research samples for analysis on Earth before it departs the International Space Station today,…
In early January NASA’s retired Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere after almost four decades in space. For 21 of…
The Orion spacecraft is back in Florida after Artemis I, a direct deposit on Mars, and an insightful mission comes to an end. These are…
The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 7:57 p.m. EDT on January 5, 2023. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which watches the Sun…
The American Rocketeer is the story of the origins of the world’s premiere center for the exploration of the solar system and beyond: NASA’s Jet…
Orphaned Stars Were Lost into Intergalactic Space Long Ago In the 1960s sci-fi television show “Lost in Space” a small family of would-be planetary colonists…
The latest in a series of atmospheric rivers drenching the state was accompanied by hazardous winds and left thousands of people without power. Just four…
The configuration of the polar vortex may have played a role in unleashing bitter cold followed by record warmth in North America. December 2022 and…
Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut who served as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968. He was selected as an…
Human research, space botany, and tiny satellites filled the research schedule aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, January 4, 2022. The seven Expedition…
Heavy rain and levee breaches triggered flooding in parts of Sacramento and the Bay Area. On New Year’s Eve 2022, heavy rain hit parts of…
Land and water were decorated with snow and ice when astronauts looked down on the region in February 2022. A strong winter storm brought snow,…
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2023? Some lovely groupings this month include the Moon with Mars, and later with Jupiter, and a close…
The Expedition 68 crew kicked off the new year with an array of microgravity research aboard the International Space Station aimed at sustaining future crews…
Researchers reconstructed the scene, finding up to three unseen stellar companions that may have shaped the planetary nebula’s layers of gas and dust. Wait, how…
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide high-definition data on the salt- and fresh water on Earth’s surface. On December 16, NASA…
According to a new study the X-ray light emitted by a certain magnetar – a highly magnetized dead star – appears to indicate that the…
