Space

Sometimes weeks go by without anything notable happening in the sky. Then along comes something spectacular, like a total solar eclipse, the peak of a major meteor shower or a bright planet reaching a landmark moment in the evening sky. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, all three occur almost simultaneously. As a bonus, if you are under a dark sky for the Perseids, the Milky Way’s bright central…

HYDERABAD, India — When Space.com visited Skyroot Aerospace’s Max-Q campus here in February, the company’s first orbital rocket, Vikram-1, was still coming together. Inside the company’s 55,000-square-foot (5,110 square meters) rocket factory, engineers sat before computer screens, running critical simulations and systems checks on Vikram-1’s Orbit Adjustment Module, the liquid-fueled…

The universe is haunted by “cosmic ghosts” called neutrinos, and new research suggests they may be the “whispers” of stars that died in supernova explosions over the course of billions of years. The discovery is an important step forward in our understanding of the life and death of stars and how they enrich their environments with metals, elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. It…

The United States government is looking into launching commercial rockets from sea-based launch sites, but some ocean advocacy experts say the move is part of a larger trend of allowing the spaceflight industry to use the ocean as a dumping ground. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday (July 7) announced a Request for Information (RFI) to look into launching rockets and…