Ed Stone, the longtime project scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, cohosts a news conference on June 6, 1990, during which the mission revealed the “Solar System Family Portrait,” a mosaic…
Category: Space
SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule boosts ISS higher above Earth in key test
A Dragon just pushed the International Space Station a little farther away from Earth. SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully finished a test reboost of the International Space Station (ISS) on…
Perseid meteors shine with the Milky Way over an ancient Egyptian temple in breathtaking photo
Photographer Osama Fathi has captured a stunning view of Perseid meteors crossing the bright ribbon of the Milky Way over the ruins of an ancient settlement in Egypt dedicated to…
Solar flares may be 6.5 times hotter than previously thought
A solar limb flare with a comparatable scale of Earth. Credit: Created by Alexander Russell (University of Andrews) using open-source SunPy Python package and data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory…
I watched scientists view the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in real time. Here’s what they saw
Few cosmic visitors have captured the fascination of astronomers quite like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hurtling through our solar system from the depths of interstellar space, this icy wanderer is…
‘We’ve known it’s been coming for a while’: Inside the decision to eliminate the UK Space Agency
The U.K. government’s announcement to absorb the nation’s 15-year-old space agency into a recently established government department may sound shocking to some, but it came as no surprise to insiders.…
Northern lights may be visible in these 18 US states Sept. 1-2
A potent solar storm is on its way and could put on a spectacular northern lights display for Labor Day across the U.S. A fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME), launched…
