BOULDER, Colorado (KSL.com) — Sky watchers in 17 American states are expected to get a chance to see the northern lights, the colorful sky show that occurs when solar wind hits the atmosphere. A solar storm is predicted to hit on Thursday. Alaska, Canada, and Scandinavia are the most common places to see the northern […]
Weather conditions ought to be incredible for the early morning send off of a SpaceX Hawk 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Power Station early Sunday, a mission that will take more Starlink web satellites to circle. Space Force forecasters predicted on Friday that the 230-foot rocket would encounter 90% “go” weather around Launch Complex […]
Gamma-ray bursts are extremely energetic explosions caused by some of the most remarkable objects in the cosmos. Evidence of gamma-ray bursts emerging from the collisions of stars suggests a previously unknown trigger for stellar explosions. violent star deaths, neutron stars, and black holes. Gamma-ray bursts caused by star collisions have been discovered by astronomers. The […]
The second-to-last flight of the Delta rocket from United Launch Alliance took off from Cape Canaveral in the early hours of Thursday. It put a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government into orbit, breaking the longest lull in launches in ULA’s history. At 5:18 a.m. EDT (09:18 a.m. UTC) on Thursday, Pad 37B at […]