Some Weird Gas Balls Are Swirling Around Sagittarius A*
Scientists have discovered a new class of celestial objects orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The objects...
NASA’s new Mars lander is in for ‘seven minutes of terror’ on Monday | Popular Science
On November 26 a new mission called InSight will attempt to enter the thin Martian atmosphere and land in a region called Elysium Planitia. —...
Elon Musk renames his BFR spacecraft Starship – BBC News
The entrepreneur would not reveal why he had renamed the craft, which has still not yet been built. — Read on www.bbc.com/news/business-46274158
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Lands 2 Boosters, Core Clips Drone Ship
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch went pretty well this afternoon, with the rocket’s two partially reusable Falcon 9 strap-on boosters making successful landings at Kennedy Air...
Air Force X-37B space plane at 500 days in orbit.
The latest secretive mission of the United States Air Force's X-37B space plane has cruised beyond 500 days in Earth orbit since its launch last...
Video: Gravitational Waves from Black Holes Detected
Scientists are claiming a stunning discovery in their quest to fully understand gravity. They have observed the warping of space-time generated by the collision of...
Scientists pinpoints gravitational waves, in a Revolutionary Discovery
In a discovery that promises to revolutionize astronomy, scientists have made the first direct observations of gravitational waves, bizarre ripples in space-time foreseen by Albert...
‘Super-antenna’ could let Mars rover talk directly with Earth
An amazing new antenna prototype from UCLA has the potential to make Mars missions a whole lot easier to run. (more…)
$2 billion rocket company merger could create giant SpaceX rival
Space craft builders create a joint venture. United Launch Alliance was formed by Lockheed Martin and Boeing to launch spy and navigation satellites for the Pentagon and Air...
NASA is about to test a ‘flying saucer’ in Hawaii – The Washington Post
Or maybe that's just what they want us to think. Source: NASA is about to test a ‘flying saucer’ in Hawaii - The Washington Post