Tag: space exploration

The sun had a big year in 2024. First, April brought a total solar eclipse that provided a wide swath ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in May 2020. Credit: ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our ...

Back to Article List The regulator issued a modified launch and reentry license that allows launching multiple flights under the ...

In 2025, Saturn’s spectacular rings will disappear. But it won’t be too long before they come back into sight in ...

When we say something is a “chip off the old block,” that generally means the new thing shares basic characteristics ...

NASA is still arguably the biggest player in space, but they don’t accomplish this alone. The agency makes use of ...

If superflares are akin to celestial temper tantrums, then our Sun might get angry more often than previously thought, according ...

As 2024 winds down, so too is the Geminid meteor shower. One of the final meteor showers of the year ...

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth’s landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub ...