What's launching this week over California? Here's the schedule

Two more SpaceX rocket launches are on tap this week at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, but both are very different missions ...

A Planet Survived the Death of Its Sun. What Does That Mean for Earth?

The planet should not have survived the star's red giant phase—which sees a star balloon to more than 100 times its original ...
Space.com

NASA launches rescue mission to save Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth's atmosphere

NASA has launched the LINK spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with the aging Swift observatory and boost it into a higher ...

Setback in Space: Satellite Rescue Mission to NASA Orbiting Observatory Postponed- Here's Why

The observatory, also known as SWIFT, has no onboard propulsion capabilities and would otherwise drift naturally toward Earth ...
Indiatimes

Why do we always see the same side of the moon? Here’s the surprising reason why Earth's companion never shows its other face

The same bright patches, the same dark regions and the same craters always seem to face us. It almost feels as though the ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

NASA races to save aging Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission

Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar ...
National Academy of Sciences

Building Blocks of the Solar System: A Conversation with Meenakshi Wadhwa on Asteroid Day

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...
Ventura County Star

SpaceX plans California rocket launch ahead of Fourth of July weekend

SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base this week. The mission will deploy 24 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. The nighttime ...