How to see the harvest moon
Also known as the fruit or barley moon or the corn moon, the harvest moon will appear full for around three days starting Monday night.
SpaceX's 1st tourists splash down in the Atlantic after 3 days in orbit
Four space tourists ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier.
First all-private crew rockets into space on mission of ‘Inspiration’
Whether you call them civilians, amateurs, tourists, or astronauts, four private citizens – strangers to each other and the public a year ago – have now joined an exclusive club, looking down at Earth from orbit.
Meet the first all-civilian crew of SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission
Liftoff is set for 8:02 p.m. on Wednesday, September 15th from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Pink and green: Auroras light up night sky in Tasmania, Alaska
The Southern and Northern lights pulled off spectacular shows in the skies over Tasmania and Alaska earlier this week.
Video captures bright meteor streaking across night sky in France
A video, captured Sept. 5, 2021, near the town of Arzal in the Brittany region of France, shows the streak of light hurtling across the night sky.
Rocket destroyed in explosive fireball off Central California coast
A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites into orbit exploded in a fireball off the California coast. The Alpha rocket from the company Firefly Aerospace lifted off Thursday evening at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
'UFO' seen on Florida Turnpike turns heads
What appeared to resemble an unidentified flying object floating along a highway in Dade County, Florida had some doing a double-take.
Jupiter Opposition 2021: When, how to see Jupiter at its biggest, brightest
Jupiter reaches its biggest and brightest point in the night sky tonight. Here’s how to view the gas giant.
Reid-Hillview Airport switching to unleaded fuel after years of complaints
Officials will announce Monday that planes at Reid-Hillview Airport in East San Jose will run on unleaded fuel, marking a victory for environmental and community groups that have complained for years about the dangers of leaded fuel.
SpaceX boss Elon Musk says Starship will land humans on moon ‘probably sooner’ than 2024
SpaceX boss Elon Musk tweeted Starlink will land humans on the moon "probably sooner" than 2024.
Truckee plane crash investigation reveals 'abnormal flight path': NTSB
Eye witnesses to the deadly plane crash in Truckee last month say they were concerned to see the aircraft pointed nose down in the seconds before impact, according to a preliminary report released Friday by the NTSB.
Mercury-bound spacecraft flies by Venus, beams back brilliant images
A European-Japanese spacecraft snapped 89 images of Venus in a close flyby on its way to Mercury.
Bennu asteroid: Earth's chances of collision with space rock slim, NASA says
Scientists have fine-tuned the path of the asteroid Bennu and say the odds of it smacking into Earth are higher than previously thought but still quite low.
Stunning time-lapse shows Perseids meteors streak across night sky
Stunning time-lapse video captured Perseids meteors streaking across the starry sky.
New study reveals children near Reid-Hillview airport experience elevated levels of lead poisoning
Children living near East San Jose's Reid-Hillview Airport are experiencing blood lead levels similar to those of children in Flint, Michigan, during the peak of its water crisis in the previous decade, a new study commissioned by Santa Clara County revealed.
4 people killed in helicopter crash in Northern California
Four people aboard a helicopter were killed when it crashed Sunday in a remote area of Northern California, the Colusa County Sheriff's Department said.
NASA hosts session on how to land an internship
NASA held a virtual seminar on how to get an internship with the space agency.