Efrain Morales captured a breathtaking view of the Tiangong space station crossing the moon from Puerto Rico. (Image credit: Efrain Morales) Astrophotographer Efrain Morales captured spectacular footage of China’s Tiangong space station as its silhouette buzzed Tycho Crater during a…
SpaceX will launch a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast tonight (June 28), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the 15,400-pound (7,000 kilograms) SXM-11 spacecraft is scheduled to lift…
On Episode 216 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson about other intelligences is beyond our scope. Whiteson, particle physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and professor at UC Irvine, joins…
When “SpaceCamp” landed in theaters in June 1986, it should have been the ultimate wish-fulfillment movie, as if “The Goonies” had cashed in their hard-earned pirate treasure in return for a spin in an actual Space Shuttle. It boasted a…
Blue Origin is hard at work at its Cape Canaveral launch pad, collecting debris and repairing the damage after an explosive accident last month. The company’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a fueling test last month at Launch Complex-36 (LC-36).…
NASA is hoping to use drones to speed up organ delivery for transplant patients. A flight test earlier this month at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia saw a drone pick up a kidney and fly it for the first…
A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen “bow-and-arrow” structure that could offer rare insight into how galaxies are reshaped by colossal shock waves as they plunge through galaxy clusters. Named RAD-BAARG…
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore observed that processing power doubles every two years whilst almost halving in cost. That should translate to older technology dropping in price and year on year seeing the cheapest prices in the sales, right? The reality…
There are heaps of streaming services available, and if you’re anything like us, you’ll have subscriptions to several — Apple TV for Severance, Disney+ for Avatar, Hulu for Solar Opposites, and more. What you need is something where you can…
The most beautiful of all the zodiacal constellations is now visible, low toward the south-southeast as darkness falls. This is Scorpius the Scorpion. It really does look like a scorpion, one of the few star patterns that readily suggests the…