Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow it up

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
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Watch this 4K footage of a big filament eruption on sun triggering a long duration flare

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a magnetic filament erupting on the Sun. The filament was "connected to sunspot ...

Bundle up, leave the city and put away the phones. Here’s how to watch the Geminids, one of the year’s best meteor showers

To enjoy the Geminid show, bundle up and venture away from city lights, which can drown out fireballs. The meteor shower will ...
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Why NASA wants to build a space station around the moon

Gateway is NASA's most ambitious project yet, so how to they plan to get a space station around the Moon? And why have one ...

Is there a rocket launch today? Time, date, how to watch Spacex liftoff

SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon 9 rocket after midnight from Southern California. You can see the launch in person, or you ...

Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while launching more missions and increasing the total science return. If ESCAPADE ...