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There was a second payload on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that launched Tuesday (Feb. 6), and (unlike the Tesla Roadster ) it’s built to last 14 billion years. SpaceX confirmed during its pre-launch livestream that the gadget, called an Arch, is tucked away somewhere inside the red Tesla Roadster now floating through space . It’s […]

Here, an image of a person of interest in a homicide in Cocoa, Florida. The history-making launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, and its Tesla Roadster payload , on Tuesday (Feb. 6) drew crowds of reporters and enthusiasts, including 65-year-old Terry Scott Hilliard, who was found dead in his motel in Cocoa, Florida, the next […]

In Congress, supporters of the International Space Station are rallying ahead of funding concerns beyond 2025. WASHINGTON — As the administration prepares to release a fiscal year 2019 budget proposal that may call for ending International Space Station operations in the mid-2020s, advocates for the station in Congress and industry are making the case for keeping […]

A colorful lunar corona above Grand Place, in Brussels city, Belgium, in this image by sky photographer Miguel Claro. Credit: Miguel Claro Miguel Claro  is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador  and member of The World At […]

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress 69 cargo ship stands atop its launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of a Russian cargo ship bound for the International Space Station was aborted in the final minute Sunday (Feb. 11), just as it was poised to fly the fastest resupply mission to the […]

Elon Musk wasn’t necessarily expectingSpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket to successfully launch into space Tuesday (Feb. 6) — but it did, and a new video shows Musk’s surprise and delight as the megarocket lifted off. “Holy flying f—,” Musk says in the video , seconds after the Falcon Heavy pushed off the launch pad. “That […]

Technicians huddle near NASA’s InSight Mars lander to give the go-ahead for testing of the craft’s solar arrays. LITTLETON, Colo. – NASA’s next Mars lander is in the final phases of preparation before heading to California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, where it will become the first interplanetary mission ever to launch from that site. The […]

Jupiter’s swirling cloud tops are made visible in this color-enhanced image by citizen scientist Sarah Liberatore. It was created using raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft. NASA’s Juno probe completed its 10th science flyby of Jupiter Wednesday (Feb. 7) — its 11th total flyby since its arrival at the Jovian giant […]

Russia’s Progress 69 resupply rocket is pictured in its processing facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) in record time early Sunday morning (Feb. 11), and you can watch the event live online.  Topped with the Russian Progress 69 cargo […]

Fly, Starman, fly! The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver, that launched into space aboard SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6), has been spotted zipping through space by a telescope on the ground. And we can’t stop watching it! Yesterday (Feb. 8), Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project and Michael Schwartz […]

A Tesla Roadster and a mannequin “driver” were launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, 2018. The Roadster came equipped with cameras to show the view from orbit. It is official. That SpaceX Falcon Heavy payload has been assigned an interplanetary ID: Tesla Roadster (AKA: Starman, 2018-017A). The Trajectory name […]

A newly discovered asteroid that will fly safely past Earth today (Feb. 9) may be larger than a celestial object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia , five years ago. The newly found interloper, called 2018 CB, is estimated to be from 50 to 130 feet (15 to 40 meters) in diameter, and will fly by […]

A 3D-printed model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket fairing, complete with a model car to represent the Tesla Roadster that flew on the real Falcon Heavy’s maiden flight. The design is freely available via the website thingiverse.com. Just a few days ago, a Tesla Roadster soared into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket […]