I feel like a kid again. Wednesday’s rocket launch starts groundbreaking new era for US human spaceflight.

It’s going to be a historic event – Wednesday’s launch of a rocket that marks the groundbreaking public-private partnership between the United States and SpaceX. And since we’ve suffered a disappointingly long wait after NASA retired the space shuttle fleet in 2001, well, it’s about time. This week’s mission, formally called SpaceX Demo-2, will launch…

Guests watch the launch of Artemis I flight test

A large piece of Chinese space debris fell from space yesterday after passing over much of the United States. The trajectory of the debris passed over Los Angeles and New York before landing off the coast of West Africa just 15 minutes after passing the US East Coast.

Buzz Aldrin and the U.S. Flag on the moon

We’ve all seen the pictures of astronauts triumphantly placing an American flag on the surface of the moon, evidence of mankind’s excursion to a heavenly body far from home. But flag planting wasn’t as easy as the astronauts made it seem.

We know that planets revolve around the Sun but did you know the entire solar system is moving through space? The Sun and the entire solar system orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy at a speed of about 500,00 MPH. If we take into account the movement of the solar system, the…

When a flame burns on earth, heated gases rise from the fire, drawing oxygen in and pushing combustion molecules out. As the flame burns, it heats the air around it and causes it to expand and rise upward. In microgravity however, hot gases do not rise.

As part of NASA’s New Frontiers program, they have selected their next mission – a drone-like lander that will explore the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. The Dragonfly mission will send a dual-quadcopter to the surface of Titan.

Astronomers have done what was thought to be impossible – they captured the unseeable, a picture of a black hole, an object so dense, nothing, note even light, can escape it.

parker solar probe 400000 miles per hour

It hasn’t made it into the popular news channels much which is puzzling because the device, and its mission, is so very, very cool. On August 12, 2018, NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a car-sized spacecraft with a mission to examine the Sun’s corona. It’s no small feat and will require the probe…

Astronomers say it’s the most exciting thing since Childress’s 2003 Anti-Gravity Handbook (which they claim is impossible to put down) – the discovery of a new earth-like planet creatively named Proxima-B. It’s an incredible discovery because Proxima-B is roughly the same size as earth, the same mass as earth, and orbits a star in the…

A sungrazer comet (technically known as Kreutz sungrazers) crashed into the sun on August 4, 2016 and lucky for us, the entire event was captured on video by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Analysis of the video shows the comet plunged into the sun at a mind-boggling 373 miles per second!

Category: Astronomy and Space

I feel like a kid again. Wednesday’s rocket launch starts groundbreaking new era for US human spaceflight.

Large piece of Chinese rocket falls from space missing New York by 15 minutes.

Are the American flags on the Moon still standing? If so, what do the flags on the Moon look like today?

Here’s what our solar system looks like while flying through space.

Here’s what a flame looks like in space, where there is no gravity.

NASA announces its next mission “Dragonfly” – will explore Saturn’s moon Titan with a drone-like lander.

For the first time, scientists have captured a picture of a black hole in space and it’s amazing!

NASA launches fastest manmade object in history – Parker Solar Probe will travel more than 400,000 miles per hour and “touch” the Sun!

Scientists discover earth-like planet in Alpha Centauri star system – say hello to Proxima-B!

NASA satellite captures comet plunging into Sun at a mind-boggling 373 miles per second!

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