NASA opened for business on 1 October 1958, two months after its creation by the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
Catching such a rare event in action will help astronomers understand the physics of a black hole.
In the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is being shut down and astronomers want to know why.
It’s been two months since SpaceX and the Planetary Society collaborated to launch a crowdfunded solar sail into Earth’s orbit.
SpaceX Chief Engineer and CEO Elon Musk will provide an update on the design and development of Starship at 2:00 SAST on Sunday, 29 September 2019.
The unpiloted cargo ship is set for liftoff at 18:05 SAST from the Tanegashima Space Center, a spaceport carved from rocky outcrops in Japan, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX’s next Starship prototype is taking shape. If all goes according to plan, the craft will fly by October.
The International Space Station (ISS) is the biggest human-made thing in space and the third-brightest object in the sky.
India attempted to make history by becoming just the fourth nation to successfully land a probe on the Moon.
September’s full moon – the Harvest Moon – will be the smallest moon in 2019. It also falls on unlucky Friday the 13th.
With more than 4 000 exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than our sun – discovered so far, it may seem like we are on the cusp of finding out whether we are alone in the universe.
SpaceX is building a fleet of Starship rockets to go to Mars by 2022, and the 100-passenger Starhopper vehicle is taking shape.
Just next door, cosmologically speaking, is a planet almost exactly like Earth. It’s about the same size, is made of about the same stuff and formed around the same star.
After a 2-week wait, SpaceX finally received FAA clearance, and residents were warned to evacuate their homes. This could be Starhopper’s last flight test.
U.S. astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan are set to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS).
The new iPhone series will be unveiled on 10 September, and will come with a funky new design and five luxury prototypes.
Elon Musk has a dream to go to Mars and he is not letting go of that any time soon – even if that means he has to nuke the planet in the process.
August’s full moon – the Sturgeon Moon – will shine the brightest on Thursday evening and Friday morning. Don’t miss it!
The AMOS-17 satellite will provide telecommunications access across the Middle East, Africa and Europe and will eventually finish up in a geostationary orbit around the Earth, SpaceX confirmed.
The LightSail 2 mission team is preparing to deploy the spacecraft’s solar sail. Watch the live stream here.
An international team of astronomers discovered vast amounts of hydrogen gas in NGC 1316, a galaxy 60 million light-years from Earth.
Researchers used data from NASA’s Juno probe and found that the electric currents that go through Jupiter’s magnetosphere aren’t acting the way it should.
The Apollo 11 mission was the turning point and is comparable to the Wright brothers’ flight in 1903 that marked the beginning of the aviation industry.
Bill Nye, the one and only Science Guy, and SpaceX launched LightSail
2 into space.
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material encircling a supermassive black hole at the heart of a spiral galaxy some 130m light-years away.