Tag: space

New details for SpaceX’s privately-funded crewed launch, Polaris Dawn, paint a more complete picture of what the mission will look like, and how SpaceX’s new […]

Adam Higginbotham’s new book “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space” explores the fateful internal NASA decisions that partly […]

SpaceX is set to launch 20 of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 14), on the company’s 50th orbital mission of 2024.

Using tree ring data, scientists have confirmed that summer 2023 was the hottest summer on Earth in the last 2,000 years.

New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space’s most confounding substance — dark matter.

The first crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule has been pushed back by four days to May 21, due to a helium leak in its […]

Adam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. “People often asked me whether I remembered where I was when I […]

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has spotted the elusive fifth moon of Jupiter transiting the giant planet’s Great Red Spot, giving astronomers a rare view of this […]

A monster sunspot on the sun’s surface just won’t quit, erupting yet again this week with a whopping X8.7-class solar flare on Tuesday (May 14).

An extreme (G5) geomagnetic storm hit Earth last weekend, delighting viewers as far south as Florida with green and red curtains of light. The post […]