space exploration

“When We Were Shuttle” is a new documentary exploring the space shuttle program through the stories of the people who made it happen. Zachary Weil, the director and producer behind the film, joined Sundial Now to discuss these lesser-known stories about Florida's Space Coast.

Jeff Bezos’ private space company Blue Origin is investigating an anomaly of its New Shepard rocket after launching Monday from West Texas. There were no people on board.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has suffered its first launch failure. Barely a minute into the flight, bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine and the capsule’s emergency launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. It parachuted onto the remote desert floor, but the rocket crashed back to Earth. The rocket is the same kind Blue Origin uses to send paying customers on short rides to the edge of space.

With the next step in America’s return to the moon set for Monday, Florida’s aerospace agency views the launch of the unmanned Artemis 1 mission as reinforcing the importance of space-related business around Cape Canaveral.

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are preparing to roll the SLS rocket to its pad ahead of a planned launch later this month.

NASA has re-established communication with a moon-bound spacecraft that launched last week after losing contact with the vehicle.

How COVID has led to chaos in the courtroom during the confessed-Parkland shooter's trial. Plus, Florida’s paradox in regards to abortion. Why some red districts still want access. And a medical student searching for the medicines that will help us when we live in outer space.

"We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*," an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team said.

NASA and the European Space Agency are gearing up to bring home a pristine sample of Martian rock. But given the small chance of life on the red planet, they have to grapple with safety questions.

NASA should send probes to the ice giant planet of Uranus and to a moon of Saturn where conditions could be right for life. Those are some of the recommendations in a new report to the space agency.

These so-called exoplanets include rocky worlds similar in size to Earth, gas giants larger than Jupiter and even "mini-Neptunes."

Only recently have scientists found tiny hints of water molecules on the moon, a vital resource for future deep space missions to the moon and beyond. But finding the exact location has been challenging — until now.