Tag Archives | space.com

An artist’s impression of a satellite by OneWeb. WASHINGTON — SpaceX and OneWeb say they are within months of launching the first satellites  in their competing megaconstellations of broadband smallsats designed to bring internet to every corner of the globe. Testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Oct. 25, executives from SpaceX and One […]

The dissipation of total kinetic energy, which indicates how efficient the global atmosphere is as a heat engine, was on the rise between 1979 and 2013. Scientists sometimes think of a planet’s atmosphere as an engine. Potential energy, supplied by heat from a parent star, is converted into kinetic energy, producing winds that swirl around […]

Every Halloween, some of the geekiest jack-o’-lanterns come out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where an annual carving contest allows the spacecraft builders and designers the opportunity to let their awesomeness shine. But you don’t need to spend your fall regretting pumpkins that might have been. A new NASA guide gives plenty of tips for […]

[embedded content] A new comedy series called “Final Space” is coming to TBS in 2018, and the network released a sneak peek at what’s in store for the animated space opera.  Created by indie filmmaker Olan Rogers, “Final Space” features an astronaut named Gary Space and his adorable extraterrestrial sidekick, Mooncake. Gary journeys through space […]

An illustration of NASA’s proposed “deep-space gateway” in orbit around the moon. BREMEN, Germany – Europe’s aerospace industry is getting ready for NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway , hoping Europe will have its own module at the lunar-orbit space station resupplied by a European transportation system. During a session on the final day of Space Tech […]

British astronaut Tim Peake was the first to wear the union flag on a spacewalk when he ventured outside the space station in January 2015. Tim Peake was the first British European Space Agency astronaut to visit the International Space Station, and might also be the first to call the wrong number on Christmas in […]

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Oct. 26 she opposed the nomination Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) to be NASA administration, because of his views on climate change and many other issues. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A day after the Senate Commerce Committee announced a confirmation hearing for Rep. Jim Bridenstine’s (R-Okla.) nomination to be the next NASA […]

Earth’s moon is the brightest object in our night sky. It appears quite large, but that is only because it is the closest celestial body. The moon is a bit more than one-fourth (27 percent) the size of Earth, a much smaller ratio (1:4) than any other planets and their moons. Earth’s moon is the […]

Dwarf planets are worlds that are too small to be considered full-fledged planets, but too large to fall into smaller categories. In recent years, there’s been a lot of hubbub about Pluto losing its status as one of the planets of the solar system. Pluto is no longer considered the ninth planet in the series […]

The moon is the easiest body in the solar system to observe with the naked eye. People have wondered about the dark and light spots on the surface throughout history. What caused these strange features? People have also questioned what makes up our nearest neighbor . This photo of craters at the moon’s north pole […]

After the sun spun to light, the planets of the solar system began to form. But it took another hundred million years for Earth’s moon to spring into existence. There are three theories as to how our planet’s satellite could have been created: the giant impact hypothesis, the co-formation theory and the capture theory. Giant […]

Things are a bit wobblier out in space than researchers thought.  A deep-sky survey by the Hubble Space Telescope gathered observations of distant galaxy clusters, in which as many as thousands of individual galaxies orbit a common center. Among 10 of those clusters, researchers found that the very brightest galaxies wobbled in their movements around […]

Employees of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are so proud of their LA Dodgers, they even decorated this mock-up of the Curiosity Mars rover in Dodger gear. Two NASA centers are engaged in a friendly wager as their local teams compete in the World Series of baseball. NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) is located in Houston, […]