This still image taken from a SpaceX broadcast shows the Starship’s Super Heavy Booster being ‘caught’ mid-air as it returns to the launch pad near Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX successfully…
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SpaceX catches giant Starship booster with ‘Chopsticks’ on historic Flight 5 rocket launch and landing (video)
The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built took to the skies again. And this time, it came back. SpaceX launched its 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship vehicle for the fifth…
Watch SpaceX’s Crew-8 astronauts head home to Earth on Oct. 13
SpaceX’s Crew-8 astronaut mission begin the trip home to Earth Sunday morning (Oct. 13), and you can watch the action live. Crew-8’s Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, is scheduled to undock…
Lightning storms play cosmic pinball with space weather
Visualization showing how magnetic field lines, thin cyan lines, circling Earth can trap charged particles, thin yellow lines. Credit: UCLA EPSS/NASA SVS When lightning strikes, the electrons come pouring down. In…
Astronomers find Webb data conflict with reionization models
Simulation of galaxies ionizing hydrogen gas (bright areas) during the epoch of Reionization. Credit: M. Alvarez, R. Kaehler, and T. Abel / European Southern Observatory (ESO). Reionization is a critical…
We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?
Space programs are often concerned with what’s happening “out there” in the universe, a large portion of what space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) do is…
Scientists long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter; now it’s happening
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2015, Bill Nye was on Marine One with President Obama. The television personality and science advocate was officially there for an Earth Day event, but…
I have reviewed all of the best star projectors and these are the only Prime Day deals worth considering
As with every major sales event — Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and now ‘Amazon Big Deal Days’ — we often see discounts on star projectors. However, not…
Hera probe heads off to see aftermath of DART’s asteroid impact
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft into space from its Florida launch pad. Credit: SpaceX The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its…
