Space & Aviation

In the Cold War, space was a new and critical frontier for intelligence. We learn what motivated two early spy satellite programs, why they were so important to future satellite development, and how to recover film capsules mid-air using a .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

L98-59d seems to be a molten planet with an atmosphere full of hydrogen sulfide

A bright meteor streaked across the afternoon sky and exploded over southeast Texas this weekend

We welcome Zhibo Yu as our guest blogger. He is the first author of a paper that is the subject of our latest Chandra press release and is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University, where .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

A six-foot-wide, seven-ton asteroid caused the rare celestial spectacle

In the Northern Hemisphere this week, the calendar officially passes from winter into spring when the length of the day and the night become equal as the days become longer. Meanwhile, there are places in space where blooms of the stellar variety .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has taken a new observation of what may be the first documented evidence of a supernova, RCW 86.

The findings further hint that space rocks may have brought the building blocks of RNA and DNA to Earth long ago