The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last chances to see fireballs in the sky. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)
Now to see where it goes.
The uncrewed Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted off from south Texas.
Researchers newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species off the coast of south-central Vietnam, but scientists worry about its vulnerability to overfishing.
There's still a lot to investigate.
Distract, Divert, Defund Congress is none too pleased after Elon Musk declared that "the Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars." As Politico reports, lawmakers who control NASA's budget are prepared to fight back against Musk's apparent plan to kibosh the space agency's forthcoming lunar landing in favor of his long-running Martian dreams. Though Musk previously criticized the lunar mission as a "jobs-maximizing program, not a results-maximizing program,"
Scientists have tracked decades of glacier retreat in the fast-warming Arctic islands of Svalbard.
A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help space scientists find life beyond Earth
Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn will align in the sky on Jan. 21, resulting in both astronomical and astrological significance in the cosmos
Starship Meteor Shower SpaceX's Starship has exploded into countless pieces of space junk as it reentered the atmosphere over the Caribbean. The company's seventh test flight has ended in a potential disaster, with videos taken from the West Indian islands of Turks and Caicos showing massive streaks of reentering pieces of Starship rocket blazing across the evening sky. SpaceX called the event a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," a conveniently technical term denoting a rocket explosion, "during i
A satellite hundreds of miles above Earth captured rare images of an atmospheric phenomenon that makes Antarctica glaciers appear to be smoking.
SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into its seventh test flight. It's the second time SpaceX has managed this particular feat. "It looks like we lost contact a little under eight and a half minutes into the flight."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and officials from the Turks and Caicos Islands have launched probes into SpaceX's explosive Starship rocket test that sent debris streaking over the northern Caribbean and forced airlines to divert dozens of flights. "There are no reports of public injury, and the FAA is working with SpaceX and appropriate authorities to confirm reports of public property damage on Turks and Caicos," said the FAA, which oversees private rocket launch activity.
Our early human ancestors had a much greater adaptability to survive in extreme environments than previously thought
SpaceX pulled off its “chopsticks” catch of a Super Heavy rocket booster but lost the Starship spacecraft on Thursday during the vehicle’s seventh uncrewed test flight.
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While multiple news outlets covered the 2015 study, it's unclear whether the report was peer-reviewed or published in a reputable journal.
Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told TechCrunch it had to "briefly" slow and divert a number of aircraft in the airspace near Puerto Rico, where debris was seen falling after SpaceX's Starship exploded during a test flight Thursday. Multiple flights could be seen entering holding patterns or completely changing course in the airspace near the area after the ship exploded on its way to space, according to data from Flightradar24. The FAA said normal airspace operations have since resumed.
Two rockets launched on Thursday, and while both marked key advances in the space industry, neither was a complete success.
SpaceX caught the Starship rocket's Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. The ship had successfully separated from the booster and had started its own rocket engines to ascend to orbit before it appeared some of those engines gave out. The company then saw its link to the telemetry coming off of the ship disappear, and a few minutes later SpaceX confirmed that the ship had suffered an "anomaly with that upper stage" during the end of its ascent burn in space.
