SpaceX’s launch of its giant Starship rocket on Thursday accomplished a series of ambitious goals that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, had set out before the test flight, its fourth. While the flight wasn’t a perfect success, it offered a sign that Musk’s vision to build the most powerful rocket ever and make it reusable … Read more
John Raoux/AP Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch Wednesday atop an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for a mission to the International Space Station. CNN — After a successful launch a decade in the making, Boeing’s Starliner mission is navigating new challenges on its way to … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner capsule lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday. This is the first time the capsule, powered by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, has flown people. Two NASA astronauts are on board for a day trip to the International Space Station. This test flight is years … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source written by researcher(s) proofread OK! The ASKAP radio telescope detects polarized radio signals in the sky. Credit: ASKAP × close to The ASKAP radio telescope detects polarized radio signals in the sky. Credit: ASKAP When astronomers turn our radio telescopes toward space, … Read more
Problems with one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s three remaining gyroscopes, crucial for pointing and locking onto targets, have prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode that will limit some observations but keep the iconic observatory well into the years will keep it operational by 2030, officials said. Tuesday. “We still believe … Read more
Enlarge / Hubble Space Telescope above Earth, photographed during STS-125, servicing mission 4, May 2009. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and if there are none left, the instrument will cease to perform meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been in space for nearly three and a half decades, … Read more
Within a billion years, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe will have reached the opposite side of the Milky Way disk to the Sun. By the time it arrives, the sun will have evaporated all of Earth’s oceans, making it habitable. As a result, NASA may not be on hand to celebrate this remarkable milestone in the … Read more
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during the first manned flight in two years in which one of the New Shepard capsule’s parachutes failed to fully inflate. William Shatner on Jeff Bezos The companies New Shepard rocket launched May 19 taking a crew of … Read more
Illustration of Sierra Space’s first Dream Chaser, named DC#1 (Tenacity). Credit: Sierra Space Dream Chaser Tenacity by Sierra Space, part of NASA‘s initiative to launch commercial supply missions to the International Space Station, arrived at Kennedy Space Center for its first mission. After rigorous pre-launch testing, the ship is expected to deliver 7,800 pounds of … Read more
The universe was created 13.8 billion years ago. What happened at that earliest moment is of great importance to anyone trying to understand why everything is the way it is today. “I think this question about what happens at the beginning of the universe is profound,” says David Spergel, chairman of the Simons Foundation, a … Read more