A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it

One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for more than a month as ...

NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...

NASA’s Hubble telescope spots K1 comet exploding into fragments, space agency says

Sometimes the best science happens by accident,” Co-investigator John Noonan, a research professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University in Alabama, said in a statement.

Scientists witness birth of one of the universe's strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity 'magic trick'

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Meteor Streaked Across the Morning Sky as a Dazzling ‘Fireball’ Before Exploding With a Thunderous Boom Above Ohio

A fiery streak across the sky and a loud boom greeted many residents of northeast Ohio on the morning of March 17. The rare ...

Exploding Comet Is Spotted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it ...

How common are fireballs streaking across the sky?

Rocks from outer space are constantly hurtling toward Earth, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs ...

NASA pinpoints where meteorites may have fallen after Northeast Ohio fireball

CLEVELAND, Ohio — If meteorites from Tuesday morning’s fireball reached the ground, scientists say they’re most likely to be ...
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NASA’s next Mars mission will help future astronauts on the Red Planet

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...
CNN

6-planet parade will grace the night sky on Saturday

Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA. This planetary parade occurs due to the alignment of the planets’ orbits around ...
WHIO

Rare parade of planets to align in night sky, NASA says

(NEW YORK) -- Stargazers will soon have an opportunity to view six planets in alignment in the night sky, according to NASA. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will take part in a ...