A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9), and you can watch the action live. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 GMT), carrying 29 of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). You can watch it live via SpaceX beginning about 10 minutes before launch. This particular booster, known as 1067, has already completed 35 orbital missions, more than any other SpaceX…
Read MoreJapanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space on SpaceX Starship mission to the moon
ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX’s Starship megarocket. The Tokyo-based company announced today (July 8) that it has booked 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) of cargo capacity on Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for a moon mission that could launch as soon as 2030. The deal is worth $50 million, according to Tokyo Brief. “We are very pleased to be able to offer the new Lunar Access Integration service utilizing Starship’s payload space through our collaboration with SpaceX,” ispace founder and CEO…
Read MoreStudents Connect NASA Science With Indigenous Knowledge to Study Coastal Erosion
Explore This Section Science Science Activation Students Connect NASA Science… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation 3 min read Students Connect NASA Science With Indigenous Knowledge to Study Coastal Erosion Students return from fieldwork and sit together in the classroom, examining NASA satellite images to learn about the changes to their community’s coastline. Story by Keri Moskowitz, Gulf of Maine Research Institute For the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation, or Sipayik, the ocean has always been a teacher. Situated in what is known as Downeast Maine, along…
Read MoreSteamy Nights at the Galactic Equator
Here’s an observing guide to both familiar and lesser-known deep-sky objects that inhabit our galaxy’s equatorial zone. The post Steamy Nights at the Galactic Equator appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreDid a Passing Star Shower Us with Comets?
We might be living through a comet shower created by a star that millions of years ago jostled the Oort Cloud surrounding the solar system. The post Did a Passing Star Shower Us with Comets? appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreHubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 3, a densely packed cluster of stars whose origins may be a merger between globular clusters in the early universe. NASA, ESA, and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of ancient stars that formed at roughly the same time from the same cloud of gas, giving those…
Read MoreCottonwood Fire Chars Utah
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Cottonwood Fire Chars Utah Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search June 5 June 29 Mountainous landscapes appear green and untouched by fire in a satellite image acquired on June…
Read MoreJames Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birthday with stunning image of a galaxy crash site
July 2026 marks four years since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images were first revealed to the general public, marking a new era for astronomy. To celebrate this anniversary of the most powerful space telescope ever launched, NASA has released a stunning image of the strangely shaped galaxy called Centaurus A. Located around 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A owes its unusual structure to a collision between two galaxies around 2 billion years ago. This merger provided the galaxy with an abundance of gas and dust, the raw material…
Read MoreOur Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought
Is the Milky Way even bigger than we thought? New observations have revealed that our galaxy’s spiral arms could stretch farther and wider than we previously concluded. The Milky Way’s spiral structure was discovered over 175 years ago in 1850. But new information could completely change our understanding of our cosmic home. Astronomers have taken a new look at our Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton observatory and have pieced together new, precise measurements of the galaxy’s spiral arms. And…
Read MoreNASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge
2 Min Read NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge Following a ceremony on July 7, 2026, officials hold up a U.S. 250th pennant at “Area 400,” a 105-acre parcel previously part of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and now part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Patuxent Research Refuge. NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
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