Space Force is sending one of its 'Guardians' into space for the first time in its history

The US Space Force is sending its first member — which it calls "Guardians" — into space. USSF Col. Nick Hague is set to pilot a NASA mission to the International Space Station as early as ... Read More

Space Force May Soon Offer 8-Year Active-Duty Enlistment Options for New Guardians

to deter and defeat the United States if we intervene in the western Pacific." Read Next: In Major Overhaul, Air Force and Space Force Will Roll Out New Ranks, Training, Structure to Compete with ... Read More

Secretive US cyber force deployed 22 times to aid foreign governments

Hunt-forward missions are conducted by the Cyber National Mission Force. The CNMF has previously worked in Ukraine, Albania and Latvia. (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino) U.S. cyber specialists toiled in ... Read More

US needs new space tech or it 'will lose,' Space Force chief says

As part of the effort to modernize Space Force's capabilities, the service released a new Commercial ... And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space.com. Read More

Military flights over our area this weekend

Flights of military helicopters in our area this weekend are not a cause for alarm, according to officials at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport ... groups from the Rome, New York, area to their ... Read More

How to spot dangerous fake solar eclipse glasses being sold in the US that could cause ‘permanent blindness’

Counterfeit solar eclipse glasses made in China that could leave users with “temporarily impaired vision” or “permanent blindness” are being sold in the US, officials cautioned. Read More

US air force finds contractor who walked into propeller had become disorientated

Stephanie Cosme, 32, was killed last year when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an aircraft in California A US air force civilian contractor had become disoriented recording ... Read More

Contractor killed when she walks into Air Force drone propeller while looking down at device

A US Air Force civilian contractor was killed ... drone at Gray Butte Airfield on Sept. 7, according to a new statement from Air Force Materiel Command summing up the findings of a report on ... Read More

Space and Astronomy

A new map of the center of the Milky Way galaxy reveals details of its magnetic fields By Dennis Overbye Soon, this devil-horned comet won’t be visible for another seven decades. By Katrina ... Read More

More than half of foreign-born people in US live in just 4 states and half are naturalized citizens

More than half of the foreign-born population in the United States lives in just four states — California, Texas, Florida and New York ORLANDO, Fla. -- More than half of the foreign-born ... Read More