Space News

The existence of a 13-billion year old planet, if in fact it still exists, highlights the fact that our Solar System exists in a universe that is estimated to be between 13.5 and 14 billion years old. A few intrepid...

Remember 252P/LINEAR? This comet appeared low in the morning sky last month and for a short time grew bright enough to see with the naked eye from a dark site. 252P swept closest to Earth on March 21, passing just 3.3 mi...

On the occasion of the recent revealing of the James Webb Space Telescope's completed golden mirror array, I wrote a post describing the mirror(s) and how they got their golden atom-thin sheen. Apropos of that, a couple ...

Physicists and astronomers from the University of Texas at Arlington have used advanced astronomical software to accurately date lyric poet Sappho's "Midnight Poem," which describes the night sky over Greece more than 2,...

As completion nears for the prototype of Boeing's first Starliner astronaut taxi, the aerospace firm announced a slip into 2018 for the blastoff date of the first crewed flight in order to deal with spacecraft mass, aero...