On Episode 188 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, who took had his second confirmation as NASA's next leader.

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 188 — A New NASA Leader Rises?

The waning moon shines close to the king of the planets on Dec. 7.

Don't miss Jupiter shining close to the waning gibbous moon on Dec. 7

Rocket Lab launched a satellite for a "confidential commercial customer" on Thursday morning (Nov. 20), just a few hours after giving notice of the impending liftoff.

Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese technology-demonstrating satellite to orbit tonight

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow.”

How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured an awe-inspiring photograph of a skydiver’s silhouette in front of the sun.

Andrew McCarthy's awe-inspiring image of a skydiver in front of the sun

Though a training exercise, the demonstration of force, firepower, and meticulous coordination between different arms of the military felt about as real as one can get. It took around seven minutes of deafening fire and bombardment, often shaking the ground in the area, before IDF forces charged forward to take positions within the “Hamas” village outpost.

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