Russian military satellite launch spawns space-junk fireball over Australia (video) EPIC!! Check out this incredible vision captured by Mel Aldridge not long ago at Cashmore near Portland! We’re getting plenty of reports. @abcmelbourne pic.twitter.com/1KuldCy6OJMay 22, 2020 Russia launched a military satellite to orbit on Friday (May 22), and the mission...

WFIRST Will be Named After Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s First Chief Astronomer In the mid-2020s, NASA’s next-generation Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will take to space. With unprecedented resolution and advanced instruments, it will build on the foundation established by the venerable Hubble Space Telescope – which celebrated its...

SpaceX test-fires rocket for epic astronaut launch for NASA on May 27 SpaceX just notched another milestone on the path to its first-ever crewed launch next week. Elon Musk’s company is gearing up for the Wednesday (May 27) launch of the Demo-2 mission, which will send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken...

Someone slapped Steve Carell’s picture over the Space Force commander at the USAF museum Netflix’s series, “Space Force” is set to drop later this month, and it’s hard not to draw some parallels between the new show and America’s newest military branch of the same name. In real life, the...

10 Amazing Space Discoveries by the World’s Largest Flying Observatory We’re learning more every day about black holes thanks to one of the instruments aboard the International Space Station! Our Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) instrument is keeping an eye on some of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena. We’re...

World sees record COVID jump; DoD sets base-reopening rules; Shooter at Texas naval base; US drops airborne-laser research; And a bit more. The world just saw its biggest single-day increase in coronavirus cases. 106,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning, WHO officials said. WHO’s...