Could our universe exist because black holes ate up all the antimatter ?

One of the most fundamental and curious mysteries in the universe is the fact that anything exists at all. That is because during the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter particles should have been created — antimatter being like the "opposite" of regu…

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NASA to Provide Update on Implementation of National Space Policy.

NASA will host a public event at 9 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 24, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington to outline how the agency is executing President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and accelerating preparations for America’s return to the surfac…

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Watch NASA roll out Artemis 2 moon rocket tonight ahead of April 1 launch.

NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad tonight (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftoff, and you can watch the action live. The Artemis 2 stack will leave Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) huge Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) tonight at around 8 p…

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NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Makes Second Flight.

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft made its second flight on Friday, kicking off a series of dozens of test flights in 2026.  Although the flight duration was abbreviated due to a technical issue, the team was able to collect information that will inform future tests.  “De…

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'At the edge of what we thought possible': Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe.

Scientists have adopted the role of "cosmic archaeologists" to discover a rare, iron-deficient second-generation star — essentially a fossil record of our universe's chemical evolution. Just as uncovering artifacts here on Earth teaches us about lost generatio…

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NASA to Cover Progress 94 Spacecraft Launch, Space Station Docking.

NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch…

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How fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers may be one step closer to resolving 'Hubble trouble'.

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling headaches in cosmology, the Hubble tension. The Hubble constant — named after Edwin…

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Two days, two coasts, two more SpaceX Starlink batches launched.

SpaceX launched two more sets of Starlink satellites on back-to-back, coast-to-coast flights on Friday and Saturday. First up, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 13. The 25 satellites (Group 17-31…

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 27th Swing Around the Sun.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. The flyby allowed the spacecraft to conduct measurements of the solar wind and solar …

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NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights.

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft’s upcoming flight tests. The teleconference is set to take place after the X-59 is scheduled to complete its second flight, in California. F…

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On this day in space: March 17, 1958: US launches its second satellite, Vanguard 1

On St. Patrick's Day in 1958, the U.S. Navy launched Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite and the oldest artificial satellite currently orbiting Earth. The main purpose of this mission was to test a new three-stage rocket. Vanguard 1 was the fourth satellite eve…

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ISS astronauts take out the space trash.

A photo captures Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL freighter being jettisoned away from the International Space Station carrying thousands of pounds of garbage, headed for a fiery demise. A new extra-large spacecraft loaded with garbage prepares to meet its fiery demise in Ea…

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Timboy Chaco in the Mars borderlands | Space photo of the day for March 16, 2026.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has spied a pitted rock face as it explores a region of the Red Planet known as Mount Sharp, a mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) tall within Mars' Gale Crater. NASA has named the rock "Timboy Chaco." What is it? Curiosity has been i…

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Delays with SpaceX's Starship risk NASA moon landing timeline, watchdog says.

SpaceX's Starship has accumulated ​at least two years of development delays since NASA picked the rocket as an astronaut moon lander ‌in 2021, and is expected to require more time to clear remaining hurdles before landing on the moon, NASA's inspector general said T…

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Crude futures turn positive on continued Hormuz closure.

Crude futures climbed higher on Friday as the Strait of Hormuz remained closed, but analysts were wary the weekend ​might bring surprise changes in the status of the war two weeks after it started. Brent futures for May settled at $103.14 a barrel, up $2.68, ‌or 2.67%. U.S. …

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SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Friday morning, carrying 25 broadband internet satellites for SpaceX’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 6:57:59 a.m. PDT (10:57:59 a.m. ED…

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On this day in space: March 13, 1781: Uranus is discovered !.

On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. Before Herschel discovered Uranus, other astronomers had seen it before, but no one realized it was planet. Instead, they thought it was a star. Herschel actually thought he was looki…

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Satellite spies an erupting volcano | Space photo of the day for March 13, 2026

A new satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from space. What is it ? This image taken by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite captures lava, ash, and gases flowing from Mayon, the most active volcano in the Phili…

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NASA says its Artemis 2 moon rocket is all fixed up. It could launch astronauts to the moon on April 1.

NASA's next launch to the moon is back on track. Artemis 2 managers met over the past two days, conducting the mission's flight readiness review (FRR) ahead of rolling its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule back to the launch pad for liftoff. Repairs …

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NASA to Cover Upcoming US Spacewalks 94, 95 Outside Space Station.

NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks beginning Wednesday, March 18, outside of the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of two roll-out solar arrays. Experts from NASA will preview the spacewalks during a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Mo…

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