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Sun unleashes biggest flare since 2017. Is our star waking up?Friday morning, our star fired off its strongest flare since October 2017, an eruption spotted by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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With SpaceX's first astronaut launch, a new era of human spaceflight has dawnedThe launch of SpaceX's first crewed mission is a very big deal. Here's why.
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Why SpaceX has to wait until Saturday for its next try to launch astronauts for NASAIf you're frustrated that you now have to wait until Saturday (May 30) to see SpaceX's first crewed launch, you can blame Mother Nature and orbital mechanics.
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SpaceX delays 1st astronaut launch for NASA due to bad weatherSpaceX will have to wait a few days to make history.
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SpaceX will launch NASA astronauts for the 1st time today. Here's what to expect.SpaceX's first-ever crewed mission, a test flight called Demo-2, is scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT today (May 27) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Russian military satellite launch spawns space-junk fireball over Australia (video)Russia launched a military satellite to orbit on Friday (May 22), and the mission generated plenty of drama in the downward direction as well.
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Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tweak its DNAGenetic enhancement could allow humanity to push surprisingly far out into the final frontier.
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Baby exoplanet spotted growing around distant star (photo)New imagery pinpoints the spot where a baby planet is forming around the young star AB Aurigae, which lies 520 light-years from Earth.
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Elon Musk and Grimes named their baby in honor of the 'coolest plane ever'Appropriately enough, the name of Elon Musk's newborn son contains a tribute to pioneering aerospace tech.
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US Space Force to launch the next X-37B space plane mystery mission on May 16The sixth X-37B mission is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station May 16, Space Force officials announced Wednesday (May 6).
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Big asteroid shows itself ahead of Earth flyby on April 29The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico captured a radar image of 1998 OR2, which will zoom within 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) of our planet on April 29.
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SpaceX's Starlink satellites will soon get glare-reducing 'sunshades,' Elon Musk saysSpaceX's Starlink internet satellites will soon sport an accessory to tamp down their surprising brightness.
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NASA engineers build new COVID-19 ventilator in 37 daysA prototype ventilator built in just 37 days by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory passed a key test this week at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
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Weird star explosion is brightest supernova ever seenA mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a new study reports.
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New origin story of 'Oumuamua interstellar visitor does not involve aliensThe mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua is probably a fragment of a larger body that was torn apart by gravitational forces during a close flyby of its native star, a new study suggests.
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What smacked Uranus on its side? Something icy and as massive as Earth, scientists say.Astronomers have worked out details of the giant impact that knocked Uranus so famously askew.
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Stratolaunch to launch hypersonic vehicles from world's biggest airplaneStratolaunch has found another use for the biggest airplane ever built.
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Elon Musk says he'll have 1,200 ventilators ready to deliver this weekSpaceX and Tesla engineers are set to make a big contribution to the coronavirus fight, just a week after Elon Musk offered to help.
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'Infinite subrings' may be next frontier for photographing black holesBlack-hole photography could be even more powerful and revelatory than scientists had thought.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may be shrinking, but its thickness is steadyJupiter's Great Red Spot isn't shrinking in every direction, a new study suggests.
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Scientists spot the biggest known explosion in the universeA gargantuan explosion tore through the heart of a distant galaxy cluster, releasing about five times more energy than the previous record holder, a new study reports.
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Chinese moon rover peers beneath surface of mysterious lunar far sideThe first published data from the Yutu 2 rover's ground-penetrating radar instrument reveal the layered structure beneath the gray dirt of Von Kármán Crater's floor.
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World's richest person, Jeff Bezos gives $10 billion to fight climate changeThe world's richest man, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is starting an organization devoted to battling climate change — and he's putting in $10 billion of his own money to get it off the ground.
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How ancient microbes could help save coastal cities from rising seas
