NASA launches two satellites to study tropical storms
Four TROPICS satellites will monitor tropical storm development and intensification on an hourly basis to improve forecasting.
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Four TROPICS satellites will monitor tropical storm development and intensification on an hourly basis to improve forecasting.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower peaks around each year during early May as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet.
The flower moon is one of the names given to May's full moon due to the abundance of flowers associated with spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
It's a gloomy preview of what will happen to Earth when our sun morphs into a red giant and gobbles the four inner planets.
The Lyrids have lit up the sky for the past 2,700 years and potentially dozens of meteors could be seen per hour.
The Starship rocket is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
Here's how "a very lucky observer" may get to see it fall from the sky.
The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons.
After becoming the first machine to fly in Mars' thin atmosphere, Ingenuity continues to set records on the red planet.
Three NASA veterans, including one of the world's most experienced female spacewalkers, and a Canadian rookie astronaut will fly around the moon next year.
"The cow" is a rare kind of star explosion that happens when it's too bright and evolves too quickly: "Put simply, they are weird, and this new observation makes them even weirder."
The space rock's anticipated trajectory places it at about half the distance to the moon, so people with telescopes may be able to see it from Earth.
Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will align on Tuesday night.
The Cargo Dragon launching came just three days after SpaceX brought four station crew members back to Earth.
One astronomer said he believes there's about a "1 in 400 chance" the asteroid could impact Earth.