Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org A B-2 Spirit on June 27 used a ship-killing missile to strike a decommissioned amphibious transport vessel during a Pacific exercise, marking a significant expansion of…
Ship 40 completes single-engine static fire; Booster 20 and Pad 2 see new work – NASASpaceFlight.com We use cookies to ensure that we…
The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via a chain of waterways. Its surface often appears dark, but each spring and summer it transforms into a striking expanse of swirling turquoise. The OCI (Ocean Color Instrument) on NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) satellite captured this image (above)…
This article is for students grades 5-8. Mass distribution affects everything from galaxy shapes to aircraft design to planetary rotation. It’s used to map stars in our universe, figure out what planets are made of, and even to determine how luggage is loaded onto an airplane. Mass distribution can be a tricky thing to understand….
Back to Article List Visible in the early-morning sky before dawn grows too bright, Neptune glows near a grouping of background stars in Pisces. This chart shows the location of Neptune on June 30. Use 44 Piscium to guide you southwest toward a grouping of several background stars that stand just east of the ice…
Artists’ renderings of lunar terrain vehicles selected for development to support NASA’s Moon Base program. Astrolab’s Crewed Lunar Vehicle (left) and Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus (right). Illustration: Astrolab/Lunar Outpost NASA’s goal of a sprawling Moon Base near the south pole of the Moon will be driven in part by its ability to move astronauts from one…
HELSINKI — SSC Space and Firefly have set a 2028 target for the first orbital launch from Esrange, with key infrastructure and regulatory pieces falling into place. The companies announced the timeline during a press briefing in Stockholm, June 30, following a string of milestones that include construction progress at Launch Complex 3C, a new…
An extraordinary high-energy event detected deep in space is giving astronomers a rare opportunity to study some of the Universe’s most extreme phenomena. On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope spotted an exceptionally bright X-ray source during a routine survey of the sky. The object’s brightness changed rapidly, making it immediately…
America’s 250th Anniversary A Smithsonian magazine special report The British punished rebellious New Englanders by depriving them of their livelihood. This led unemployed mariners to enlist in the patriot cause Christopher Magra, The Conversation June 22, 2026 A painting of the Hannah, a Continental schooner that captured a British vessel in September 1775 Public domain via Wikimedia…
June 30, 2026 – Washington, D.C. — The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) announced today that Matthew Williams, a former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Air Force, will join the association as Senior Advisor, National Security. Matthew is joining CSF to help us advance the role…