Space News

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft left the International Space Station on August 26....

Like a massive, dormant volcano, the Milky Way's central black hole appears to be a sleeping monster. Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that "what goes into them does not come out," says Ave...

I cannot believe I'm writing yet another column concerning the infamous Mars Hoax, but indeed, more than a dozen years after it made its first appearance, it sadly has reared its ugly head in cyberspace once again.

NASA's Hubble researchers say that future Earths are more likely to appear inside giant galaxy clusters (such as the massive cluster galaxy-cluster-macs-j0717 above) and also in dwarf galaxies, which have yet to use up a...

Is Caturday still a thing? I don't care, because it's now Goaturday. That is my goat, Jack Burton.* He is one of four goats we have chez BA, the others being Sam, Batman, and Clayton Forrester. They are all fun and cute ...

Tonight (Aug. 27), look toward the western horizon just after sunset to see Venus and Jupiter get up close and personal, plus a parade of planets. No telescope required!

NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600 m...

NASA's Juno space probe on Saturday was set to pass the closest it will get to the planet Jupiter during the main phase of its planned mission to the gas giant, the US space agency's officials said.

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