Expect a modest-but-convenient display of "shooting stars" after sunset, with a chance of bright "fireballs," as the ...
A stronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible ...
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas — The first private spacewalk, an on-orbit symphonic performance, and nearly 40 scientific research experiments. Those were just a few highlights of September’s Polaris Dawn ...
UPDATE 9/10/2024: The Polaris Dawn mission successfully launched to low-Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 10 at 5:23 a.m. EDT. The crew’s first opportunity for their historic ...
Today is the day that the crew of Polaris Dawn will conduct the first spacewalk ever attempted by private citizens. Polaris Dawn Mission Commander Jared Isaacman and Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis ...
Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies. Earlier this month, we spoke of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, so this week we ...
Menon's classmates in the 2025 NASA astronaut candidate class — the 24th in the agency's history, and its first since 2021 — ...
Private-citizen astronauts traveling with SpaceX are poised to attempt the first commercial spacewalk, an operation that would push new boundaries at the Elon Musk-led company. SpaceX said it aims to ...