NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected debris at 2 million miles per hour.
A laser system, previously tested on board the International Space Station, helped to stream video directly from the Artemis 2 mission on its way around the moon.
We rank these Canon 18x50 IS binoculars as the best for shake-free, high-magnification stargazing. Take advantage of this summer binocular deal for fantastic views of Juneβs moon and Mercury conjunction.
Written in the 1860s, Jules Verneβs novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were highly speculative fiction in their time, but tell a tale that now seems remarkably familiar: three astronauts in a conical capsule on a free-return trajectory around the moon.
On Episode 214 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about his past and the space agency's future.