Scientists have discovered a massive collection of more than 100 black holes in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The black holes are located in the center of a star cluster that is more than 80,000 light-years away from Earth. There is almost three times the number of black holes that physicists would expect to find.
China launches Fengyun weather satellite into polar orbit – Spaceflight Now
A new Chinese Fengyun weather satellite launched Sunday and flew into an early morning polar orbit to feed data into global computer models, adding inputs that international weather officials said will improve medium and long-range forecasts.
The Fengyun 3E satellite rocketed into orbit on top of a Long March 4C rocket at 7:28 p.m. EDT Sunday (2328 GMT; 7:28 a.m. Monday in Beijing), according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., or CASC, the top state-run contractor for China’s space program.
NASA delays SpaceX spacecraft undocking, splashdown due to Tropical Storm Elsa
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SpaceX's Cargo Dragon spacecraft was set to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday but as Tropical Storm Elsa continues churning toward Florida flight control teams are monitoring conditions that could impact recovery efforts at sea.
The spacecraft was set to undock from the International Space Station Tuesday at 11 a.m. but NASA officials announced the event had been pushed to no earlier than Wednesday due to the extreme weather off Florida's coast.
Chinese Astronauts Score Firsts on New Space Station | Digital Trends
Just a couple of weeks after arriving at China's new space station, two astronauts have performed the first spacewalk at the orbiting outpost.
Sunday's extravehicular activity (EVA), as spacewalks are officially known, was also the first to be performed as a pair by Chinese astronauts, as its only other spacewalk in 2008 involved a single crew member.
Filling in the Cosmic Spaces: this week on the Storyteller's Night Sky | Interlochen
This week begins with an exclamation point, and I don't mean just the fireworks. There are three exceptional celestial phenomena all piled up on the same day, stirring the imagination and stoking vivid summer dreams.
So here's what to know: The orbit of the Moon and all the planets is an ellipse, rather than a circle ~ an ellipse is like a squashed oval. This was figured out in the early 17th century by Johannes Kepler.
No long weekend this Fourth of July holiday for American astronauts in space | Space
While many Americans will celebrate the Fourth of July with a day off from work, astronauts at the International Space Station are spending their holiday preparing for a cargo ship's return to Earth.
As federal employees, U.S. astronauts typically have Sundays off. Because July 4 falls on a Sunday this year, the federal holiday is officially observed on Monday (July 5) instead.
Russian Progress cargo ship docks at space station after two-day journey | Space
An uncrewed Russian cargo spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station after a two-day journey to deliver food, fuel and supplies for the orbiting outpost's crew.
Launched on Tuesday (June 29) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Progress MS-17 completed 34 orbits of Earth on its way to the space station. During its rendezvous, the ship was predicted to come within the vicinity of two pieces of SpaceX hardware.
Democratic Rep. André Carson Calls for Congressional Hearings on UFO Sightings
Indiana Congressman André Carson on Sunday said he wants a public hearing and the Pentagon to release more information about UFO sightings, suggesting that a few dozen incidents can't be ruled out as "otherworldly."
In his appearance on CBS News' Face the Nation , Carson responded to a declassified Pentagon report released last week that detailed hundreds of unexplained UFO sightings by U.S. Navy pilots since 2004.
Explained: What UAE’s Hope orbiter tells us about discrete auroras on Mars | Explained
The UAE's Hope spacecraft , which is orbiting Mars since February this year, has captured images of glowing atmospheric lights in the Red Planet's night sky, known as discrete auroras.
The UAE Space Agency said on its website that the data gathered by the oribter "include far and extreme ultraviolet auroral emissions which have never been imaged before at Mars."
The tweet heard around the world: A message for space tycoons | TheHill
In subsequent tweets, Beasley noted that Bezos' wealth has risen by $65 billion in the last year alone. And Musk's fortune has jumped $137 billion . As Beasley put it, "Elon, just 5 [percent] of your net worth INCREASE would save 41 million people about to die from hunger. We need you, NOW!"
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