What brand of golf ball did Alan Shepard hit off the moon? The world may never know

Carlos Villagomez owns a golf ball that he believes was flown to the moon. If indeed it was, he may also hold the answer to a more than 50-year-old bit…

NASA CubeSat finds new radiation belts after May 2024 solar storm

The May 2024 solar storm created two extra radiation belts, sandwiched between the two permanent Van Allen Belts. One of the new belts, shown in purple, included a population of…

New ‘Star Wars: The Mask of Fear’ novel stars Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrera (interview)

Galavanting through the galaxy far, far away with seemingly effortless literary ease, prolific “Star Wars” author, Alexander Freed has been catapulted to the top tier of sci-fi writers. He is…

Solar cycle study reveals trends in charged particle numbers and interactions

SpaceX to launch water-hunting moon probe ‘Lunar Trailblazer’ on Feb. 26

LITTLETON, Colorado — A university-led lunar orbiter designed to pinpoint the location of ice or liquid water trapped in rocks on the moon’s surface is nearly ready for takeoff. The…

En route to Jupiter, Europa Clipper captures images of stars

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Three months after its launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion…

Blue Origin to launch New Shepard moon-gravity mission on Feb. 4 after glitch

Blue Origin is now targeting Tuesday (Feb. 4) for its first-ever moon-gravity mission. The company first tried to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan.…

Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely

Credit: CC0 Public Domain We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the…

Japan launches a navigation satellite on a new flagship rocket for an improved positioning system

The H3 Launch Vehicle No. 5, carrying the Quasi-Zenith Satellite “Michibiki No. 6,” lifts off at a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, Sunday Feb. 2,…

SpaceX launching 21 Starlink satellites from Florida on Feb. 3

SpaceX is set to launch another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast early Monday morning (Feb. 3) A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink spacecraft, including…