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A Supergiant Star Lights Up the Creepy Witch Head Nebula
If you glance up at the constellation Orion during winter, you cannot miss Rigel. It is a dazzling blue supergiant star shining with the brightness of tens of thousands of suns. But right near Rigel sits something much spookier and harder to spot with just…
3 min readNASA Gears Up for a Permanent Moon Base with Nuclear Rovers and Cosmic Cargo
NASA is moving way past short weekend trips to the Moon. Through a fresh round of awards and industry partnerships, the space agency is putting serious funding into building permanent lunar infrastructure—the cosmic equivalent of cargo freighters, power sta…
3 min readSpaceX Launches a Top-Secret Sunset Rocket for the Space Force!
Imagine watching the sun dip into the ocean, splashing the sky with pink and purple. Suddenly, whoosh! A giant rocket roars off the launchpad, carving a bright glowing trail straight through the twilight.
3 min readCell Towers in Space! SpaceX Wants to Power Your Phone
Have you ever taken a road trip and watched your phone signal drop to 'No Service'? That happens because traditional cell phone service relies on tall metal towers planted in the ground. If you wander too far from a tower, your phone can't send or receive c…
3 min readGoodbye, Swift! A Giant Space Explosion Hunter Retires
Meet the Swift Observatory, a legendary NASA telescope launched to track down the fiercest fireworks in the cosmos! In deep space, dying stars and colliding black holes unleash mega-blasts called gamma-ray bursts. These flashes shine with mind-boggling powe…
3 min readGiant Earth Ribbon: How Utah's Goosenecks Got Their Twists
Imagine taking a pair of safety scissors and cutting giant, loopy zigzags right into solid rock. That is pretty much what happened at Goosenecks State Park in Utah, where the San Juan River carved a canyon that bends back and forth like the curvy neck of a…
3 min readMeet the X-70 Fractal: NASA's Shape-Shifting Sky Laboratory!
NASA just showed off a brand-new experimental airplane called the X-70 Fractal! Unveiled at the famous Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this super-sleek jet is not meant for carrying vacation passengers. Instead, it is a high-speed flying laboratory operate…
3 min readGive Hubble a Boost! NASA Asks Private Rockets to Save the Epic Telescope
Imagine you are riding on a playground swing. Each time you pump your legs, you stay high in the air. But if you stop pumping, you slowly glide down to a stop. That is what is happening right now to the famous Hubble Space Telescope!
3 min readCan Cool Remakes Bring Back Space Hero Samus Aran?
Imagine blasting off to uncharted alien worlds inside power armor with an arm-cannon. That is the world of Metroid Prime, starring galaxy-trotting bounty hunter Samus Aran! When the original 3D game launched decades ago, it blew everyone away with creepy sp…
3 min readCosmic Haunted Houses: Why Sci-Fi Spaceships Get So Spooky!
When Halloween rolls around, horror stories love to swap cobwebbed castles for abandoned starships. In science fiction, spaceships are like floating steel islands. If something goes wrong aboard, you cannot just run outside into the fresh air because outer…
3 min readSpooky Space Flight! SpaceX Launches Halloween Satellites
Just past midnight on Halloween, a giant rocket blasted off into the dark sky over California! It wasn't carrying ghosts or goblins, though. Inside was a batch of 27 shiny Starlink satellites, all packed tightly like tech treats ready to be shared with the…
3 min readSpace Chats! Why World Leaders Are Talking to Rocket Bosses
Imagine building a giant fleet of flying Wi-Fi routers that zoom around our entire planet in outer space. That is what SpaceX does with its Starlink satellites! These spinning orbiters beam internet signals straight down to Earth, reaching snowy mountaintop…
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