Photographing a Black Hole: Historic Campaign Now Underway

SpaceX is deep into the development of reusable rockets to slash launch costs for future missions, so one has to wonder how much its historic SES-10 mission saved.

As it turns out, Brexit was not the first time Britain has separated from the European mainland. Scientists say that England and France were once connected by a ridge of land, until powerful waterfalls from an overfull lake demolished their connection.

cassini huygens mission spacecraft probe nasa jpl caltech PIA21438 An illustration of the Cassini spacecraft over Saturn’s north pole with its hexagon-shaped storm.

This sounds like the perfect job and the pay is not bad either. Scientists at the Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology near Toulouse, France, are offering volunteers 16,000 euros (or a little over $17,000) to investigate the effects of …

WASHINGTON – Continuing to burn fossil fuels at the current rate could bring atmospheric carbon dioxide to its highest concentration in 50 million years, jumping from about 400 parts per million now to more than 900 parts per million by the end of …

Being in microgravity must be lots of fun, which is probably why US astronaut Peggy Whitson doesn’t quite want to come back down to Earth yet.

If an emergency forces astronauts to evacuate a Boeing Starliner capsule and Atlas V rocket at Launch Complex 41, they’ll fly a quarter-mile to safety on a commercially produced zip line similar to ones ridden by thousands of tourists and thrill-seekers.

The hunt for Planet Nine takes a new step since research at Caltech published the evidence of its existence last year. Campaigns to look for the planet involves citizen efforts from ordinary people which also made an intriguing find.

Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Pluto-like object in the distant Kuiper Belt. Image Credit: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI / Alex Parker.