Elon Musk Shows us What's Inside the Starship

Elon Musk recently upload a video that shows that the interior of the Starship's prototype cargo bay.
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India's Crashed Lander is In This Picture, Somewhere

What Will It Take To Feed A Million People On Mars?

A Red Dwarf Star Has a Jupiter-Like Planet. So Massive it Shouldn't Exist, and Yet, There It Is

Carnival of Space #631

Confirmed. Fossils That Formed 3.5 billion Years Ago, Really are Fossils. The Oldest Evidence of Life Found So Far

Tracking Twilight: 'Purple Sunset Effect' Seen Worldwide

Has twilight looked at little… mauve to you as of late? The effect is subtle, but noticeable on a clear evening. Sunsets are always colorful events, as the Sun's rays shine through a thicker layer of the atmosphere at an oblique angle, scattering out at longer, redder wavelengths.
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Musk Presents the Orbital Starship Prototype. Flights will Begin in Six Months

Coinciding with SpaceX's 17th anniversary, Elon Musk provided the latest updates on the design of the Starship and Super Heavy launch system.
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New Technique for Estimating the Mass of a Black Hole

A Russian-led team of astronomers has developed a method for estimating the mass of a supermassive black hole by looking at its powerful jets.
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Mice That Spend a Month in Space Were Able to Reproduce Once They Got Back to Earth

Astronomers Have Found a Place With Three Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Around Each Other

WFIRST Gets its Coronagraph, to Block the Light of Stars and Reveal Their Planets

The coronagraph instrument, which will help NASA's WFIRST mission to search for exoplanets, just passed a major milestone!
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Shape-shifting Robots Like These Could Be Just What We Need to Explore Titan

Astronauts Explore Caves on Earth, Learning the Skills They'll Need for the Moon and Mars

This Summer's Asteroid Near-Miss Helped Greenlight NASA's NEOCam Mission to Search the Skies for Killer Spacerocks

Weekly Space Hangout: September 25, 2019 - Seth Lockman & Aaron Lockman: The Astronomy Brothers
Lockheed Wins the Contract to Build Six More Orion Capsules

NASA and Lockheed Martin have finalized their contract for the delivery of the 6 to 12 Orion capsules that will take astronauts back to the Moon.
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Messier 92 - the NGC 6341 Globular Cluster

Located in the Hercules constellation, roughly 26,700 light-years from Earth, is the globular cluster known as Messier 92.
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SpaceX Starship Gets Some Fins

Elon Musk has provided another update on the construction of the Starship prototype, which now includes steerable tail fins.
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