Greg Meyer from Phoenix, Arizona Stars swirl around Polaris to the north and arc across the sky to the south in this 360° star-trail panorama taken at the Okie-Tex Star Party. The photographer used an ...

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas — The first private spacewalk, an on-orbit symphonic performance, and nearly 40 scientific research experiments. Those were just a few highlights of September’s Polaris Dawn ...

UPDATE 9/10/2024: The Polaris Dawn mission successfully launched to low-Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 10 at 5:23 a.m. EDT. The crew’s first opportunity for their historic ...

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us ... scope to be able to see it firsthand! The supergiant star Polaris is among the most famous of the myriad twinkling points of light that inhabit the night sky. Polaris ...

A Falcon 9 rocket had an unexpected failure on August 28 when the booster rocket landed following its trip to space. There were no injuries since it landed at sea on an autonomous barge, but the ...

Menon's classmates in the 2025 NASA astronaut candidate class — the 24th in the agency's history, and its first since 2021 — ...

The North Star's surface is surprisingly spotty, new high-definition observations of Polaris reveal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Private-citizen astronauts traveling with SpaceX are poised to attempt the first commercial spacewalk, an operation that would push new boundaries at the Elon Musk-led company. SpaceX said it aims to ...

Expect a modest-but-convenient display of "shooting stars" after sunset, with a chance of bright "fireballs," as the ...