Discover celestial objects visible tonight from your current location. Our guide automatically shows planets, stars, nebulae, and spacecraft flyovers you can see right now. Explore the night sky with up-to-date data specific to where you are!
People in eastern North America have a chance to see a private cargo spacecraft launch toward the International Space Station tonight (March 22). Orbital ATK's robotic Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...
It islaunch day once again for Boeing's Starliner OFT-2 test flightto the International Space Station, with the launch time set for 6:54 p.m. EDT (2254 GMT) tonight. Boeing's secondStarliner spacecraftand itsAtlas V rocketwill launch on an uncrewed test flight to space station to prove...
“Our focus this decade is to win the NASA Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) contract and build the successor to the International Space Station,” said Max Haot, Vast CEO. “To achieve this, we will first demonstrate our capability by building and operating the world’s first commercial spac...
When Space Station One had vanished completely, Gibson went round to the day side of the ship to take some photographs of the receding Earth. It was a huge, thin crescent when he first saw it, far too large for the eye to take in at a single glance. As he watched, he could see ...
The first battle is to overcome the strange novelty of a military branch dedicated to operating in outer space. If the struggle for legitimacy has only begun, the US Space Forcehas at least won acceptance by a majority of the public. However, acceptance is not the same as legitimacy. The ...
Probably wrong...If statistics were a child, Alexander Tabarrok would be arrested for abuse:Is Space Tourism Ready for Takeoff? Probably Not - TCS: Tech Central Station - Nov.18.04. Aerospace engineers can comment more knowledgeably on his analysis than I can but here are some points to cons...
Things get off to a gentle enough start with a 17 mile ride out of Bodmin station (four hours from Paddington) along the converted railway track of the Camel Trail (flat and, ironically, hump-free) to reach the start of the West Country Way at Padstow on the north Cornish coast. We ...
Read on to find out what's up in the night sky tonight (planets visible now, moon phases, observing highlights this month) plus other resources (skywatching terms, night sky observing tips and further reading) Related: The brightest planets in the night sky: How to see them (and when) ...
(0449 UTC), for 77 minutes of occultation. From Santiago the moon will be slightly lower in the sky, at an altitude of about 60 degrees in the northeast. In Pelotas, Brazil, which is near the northern limit of visibility, Antares disappears at 1:46 a.m. May 14 and reappears at 2:...