Total solar eclipse 2021: When, where and how to see it on Dec. 4 | Stages of the total solar eclipse of Dec. 4, 2021 explained | Space station dodges space debris from decades-old Pegasus rocket
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The only total solar eclipse of the year takes place on Saturday (Dec. 4), and if you live in the far south of the world you may be able to catch a glimpse. You'll be able to watch a webcast at 1:30 a.m. EST (0630 GMT).
The solar eclipse begins 2 a.m. EST (0700 GMT) with the total phase starting at 2:33 a.m. EST (0733 GMT). Here's how the stages will appear (and when) on the ground.
The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.
Arianespace plans to send two new European Galileo navigation satellites to space tonight (Dec. 3) and you will be able to watch it live online. Liftoff is at 7:23 p.m. EST (0023 Dec. 4).
NASA just doled out a big chunk of change for the design of private space stations. Three teams led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman will split $415 million.
GJ 367b is a rocky world about 70% as large as Earth and 55% as massive, making it one of the lightest known exoplanets, study team members said. It completes one orbit every 7.7 hours and is therefore an "ultra-short period" (USP) planet -a mysterious and little-studied class of world.
A tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way itself, and scientists don't know why.
SpaceX has launched the first of four planned Falcon 9 rocket launches this month, with its workhorse rocket carrying a stack of 48 Starlink satellites and two BlackSky Earth observation satellites into orbit.
The company has started building a pad for Starship at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday (Dec. 3).
What would humanity do if a giant space rock were hurtling directly towards Earth? According to director Adam McKay ("The Big Short," "Anchorman," "Step Brothers"), we might not even care.
Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the space agency will launch a different, but related type of "Gateway" at its Florida spaceport - and everyone is invited to come aboard.
