Category: Space

The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur June 5 at 3:12 p.m. EDT (1912 GMT). That same day, a penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible … Read More

“Launch America” drew at least 10.3 million concurrent viewers to NASA’s various online platforms, agency officials said. Source: Space.com SpaceX's 1st astronaut launch was NASA's most-watched online event ever

It was “huffing and puffing” on the way to orbit, astronauts say. Source: Space.com SpaceX's Crew Dragon has that 'new car smell' and flies 'totally different' than a NASA shuttle

Musk’s remark after SpaceX’s first crewed launch on Saturday (May 30) references a 2014 barb by a top Russian official. Source: Space.com 'The trampoline is working!' The story behind Elon … Read More

Twin shock waves produced by the galaxy’s central black hole could have inflated the gargantuan Fermi Bubbles about 6 million years ago, a new study suggests. Source: Space.com Mysterious 'Fermi … Read More

SpaceX’s historic crewed mission to space has … two commanders? Source: Space.com Why does SpaceX's historic astronaut flight for NASA have two commanders?

Physicists are figuring out how close you can get to a black hole before you are unlikely to escape. That threshold is called the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO). Source: … Read More

The asteroid that sealed the dinosaurs’ fate at the end of the Cretaceous struck at an angle that was the worst-case scenario for life on Earth. Source: Space.com Fiery meteor … Read More

Two entirely different ways of “weighing” the cosmos are producing disparate results. The discrepancy could be a sign that physicists will need to revise the standard model of cosmology. Source: … Read More