The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
SpaceX is set to launch 4 people on a first-of-its-kind mission around Earth’s poles. Here’s what to know
A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...
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The Sky This Week from March 28 to April 4: Greet the First Quarter Moon
Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...