Officials report that residents in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties may hear one or more sonic booms during the launch. The sound may vary depending on weather and other conditions ...

Keep your eye on the sky tonight. A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. Monday, Jan. 13 is when the comet will ...

according to Space.com. While studying the comet's orbit scientists learned that the celestial body was likely much older than they initially thought, and likely passed by the sun some 160,000 ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! But from an altitude of 254 miles (409 km) above the Earth, the comet was relatively easy to see and ...

Astronaut Don Pettit even snapped a picture of the comet zipping along the horizon from the International Space Station. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit. Atlas C2024-G3 is paying ...

Monday's SpaceX twin Falcon 9 missions are slated to become the 11th and 12th orbital rocket launches thus far this year from ...

He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series. More about comets 'Totally amazing' astronaut photo captures comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS shooting past Earth from the ISS Rare comet could ...

The idea of cosmic threats to Earth almost sounds like the stuff of fiction. But while alien invasions may be far fetched, ...

Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is scheduled to have its first light on the Fourth of July 2025. This new year should bring with it lots of new dark comets along with ...

Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's windows and caught the comet as it paid the astronauts a visit. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," he said on X ...

Researchers have created a 20-gram, self-deployable boom integrated with flexible electronics for use in CubeSats. The boom, ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California's Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break ...