Rocket Lab reached the milestone 50th launch of its Electron rocket in record time. A Electron lifted off from Pad B at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 2:13 PM EDT June 20 (1813 GMT; 6:13 AM local New Zealand time June 21). The rocket operated on an immediate launch window, but lifted … Read more
A satellite image shows an overview of the International Space Station with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, June 7, 2024. Maxar Technologies | Via Reuters Boeing’s Starliner capsule “Calypso” will remain at the International Space Station twice as long as the mission was originally planned, NASA announced Friday. This developmental nature of the mission, known as … Read more
Astronomers are about to capture a time-lapse of the night sky using the largest digital camera ever built. Chile’s new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, designed to reveal every new or moving point of light and the structure of the universe, will take so many pictures, so quickly, that it will effectively produce an astronomical movie … Read more
A unique NASA mission aims to place a new ‘star’ in the sky by the end of this decade to help solve many of the universe’s greatest mysteries, scientists have announced. The Landolt NASA Space Mission aims to send an artificial stellar satellite into orbit by “early 2029.” Peter Plavchanan astronomer at George Mason University … Read more
After more than six months of grueling negotiations, David Ellison thought he was about to make the deal of a lifetime: the acquisition of Paramount, the century-old Hollywood studio. Ellison received word Tuesday morning in Los Angeles from an adviser to Shari Redstone, the heiress who controls the media group behind classics, including The godfather, … Read more
Researchers delve into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real universe. Using supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, scientists have created nearly 4 million simulated images of the cosmos from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by NSF (the … Read more
Ed Stone, the scientist who spent 50 years leading NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88. A physicist who started on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA missions … Read more
In 2026, NASA plans to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972. Times have changed, as evidenced by new rockets, spacecraft and spacesuits. In preparation for the Artemis 3 moon landing mission, two astronauts put on the new spacesuits from Axiom Space at the end of April and tested for the … Read more
The DearMoon crew took to social media to share their disappointment following the abrupt cancellation of the mission. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa canceled his planned flight around the moon on June 1 due to delays at SpaceX Starship mega rocket, which has not yet made a single manned test flight. Maezawa initially booked the private … Read more
Enlarge / Boeing’s Starliner capsule takes off aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. After years of delays, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft finally launched into orbit from Florida on Wednesday, sending two veteran NASA astronauts on a long-delayed shakedown cruise to the International Space Station. The Starliner capsule lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas … Read more