What Is a 'Morning Star,' and What Is an 'Evening Star'?
Skywatcher Shawn Malone took this photo of two “evening stars,” Venus and Jupiter, in Eagle Harbor, Michigan, on March 10, 2012. Whether a planet qualifies as a “morning star” or an “evening star” can vary throughout the year. Credit: Shawn Malone I received an interesting inquiry recently from a woman who wanted to know the […]
NASA's Orion Crew Module Arrives in Florida to Prep for 2018 Flight
The crew module for NASA’s Orion capsule, as seen at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 3, 2016. Credit: Amy Thompson/Space.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Orion crew capsule is one step closer to its next flight. The crew module of Orion , which is scheduled to fly around the moon on […]
Where the Super Bowl Meets Space: NASA's Aerodynamics Lab
Student intern Joe Burces at NASA’s Ames Research Center observes a football in a fluid dynamics chamber. Credit: NASA Ames/Dominic Hart Throwing a tight spiral to a receiver downfield isn’t so different from trying to get a rocket to fly smoothly through the atmosphere. Or at least these tasks are similar when viewed from an […]
US Air Force Launches GPS Satellite to Complete Navigation Constellation
Liftoff! An Atlas V rocket carrying the IIF-12 GPS satellite took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:38 a.m. EST (1338 GMT) on Feb. 5, 2016. Credit: ULA The final addition to a group of global positioning satellites successfully launched into orbit this morning. The GPS IIF-12 satellite took off today (Feb. 5) […]
Time-Traveling TV: LG Super Bowl Ad Features 'Man from the Future'
Liam Neeson stars as “The Man from the Future” in a Super Bowl ad for LG’s new G6 OLED TV. Credit: LG The Super Bowl commercial for LG’s new ultra-thin TV has a decidedly sci-fi bent. The minute-long ad, which will air Sunday (Feb. 7) during Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and Denver […]
Saturn V vs. SLS – Both Old Tech | Video
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Mission teams prepare for critical days
Moments after Sentinel-3A separates from its rocket, a team of European mission control specialists will assume control, shepherding the new spacecraft through its critical first days in space. To source
Mirror accomplished
The 18th and final segment on James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror was installed on 3 February To source
SpaceX's Grasshopper: Reusable Rocket Prototype
On Oct. 7, 2013, SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket climbed 2,441 feet (744 meters) into the air before safely landing back on its launch pad in McGregor, Texas. Credit: SpaceX Grasshopper was a reusable vertical-takeoff-and-landing rocket prototype tested by the company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in preparation for more ambitious launches. After progressively higher hops and pinpoint […]
Elon Musk: Private Space Entrepreneur
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur best known in space circles for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which became the first private company to ship cargo to the International Space Station in 2012. A long-time advocate of Mars exploration, Musk has publicly talked about ventures such as building a greenhouse on the Red Planet and more ambitiously, […]
Hubble Views Merging Galaxies in Eridanus
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 1487, lying about 30 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Eridanus. To source
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 1-5 February 2016 To source
Send Humans to Mars Orbit, Not the Surface (Op-Ed)
Mars, as seen by India’s Mangalyaan orbiter, which arrived at the Red Planet in September 2014. Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation Neil MacDonald is the editor of Federal Technology Watch and Joshua Chamot is the editor of Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights section. The authors contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices . Establishing […]