NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, pilot Bob Hines, commander Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti pose with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX’s fourth human-rated Crew Dragon spacecraft has been named “Freedom” by the first team of astronauts who will ride it into orbit next month.
In 2014, the Japanese Space Agency JAXA launched the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to visit asteroid Ryugu. It arrived at the asteroid in June 2018 and studied it from orbit for over a year. Hayabusa 2 even dispatched four rovers to the asteroid’s surface. After departing, it flew past Earth in December 2020, dropping off a sample of Ryugu.
All about NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to embark on a long-duration space mission.
Our Solar System was born in chaos. Collisions shaped and built the Earth and the other planets, and even delivered the building blocks of life. Without things smashing into each other, we might not be here.
The World Central Kitchen founder says the mission invokes "the spirit of eating paella from the same pan."
In a long-awaited moment, NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon.
North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday (March 24), its first test of a long-range weapon-delivery system since 2017, according to media reports.
The European sun-chasing spacecraft Solar Orbiter has snapped the closest image of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.
In radio astronomy, circle-shaped objects are fairly common. Since diffuse ionized gas often emits radio light, objects such as supernova remnants, planetary nebulae, and even star-forming regions can create circular arcs of diffuse gas. But in 2019 astronomers began to discover radio circles they couldn’t explain, in part because they are so large.
The best travel tripods can be a worthwhile addition for photographers on the move. Here’s our rundown of some of the best on the market.
Until recently, one of the closest orbiting each other pairs of supermassive blackholes was found in NGC 7727. That pair is about 89 million light-years away from Earth. Those black holes are only 1,600 light-years apart from each other. Another pair in OJ 287, about 3.5 billion light-years from Earth, are only separated by about 0.3 light years. Now scientists have discovered a pair orbiting each other at a distance of 200 AU to 2,000 AU apart, about 0.003 to 0.03 light years.
The fine-structure constant is a seemingly random number with no units or dimensions, which has cropped up in so many places in physics, and seems to control one of the most fundamental interactions in the universe.
Image: Solar Orbiter tracks solar features during closest approach
A Soyuz rocket lifts off Tuesday with a Russian military satellite. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense
A Russian Soyuz rocket delivered a military communications satellite to orbit Tuesday in the first space launch for Russia’s military since forces invaded Ukraine last month.
Paramount Plus will finally debut their ambitious new "Halo" series today based on the iconic video game franchise from Microsoft/Bungie.
Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft was crossing directly between the Earth and Sun.
Paramount’s take on the Chief is finally due to hit select streaming services next week – as a primer, here’s everything we know about the Halo TV series.
Astronomers imaged a weird circle in space in high-definition for the first time as they try to find out how these mysterious structures form.
A circular shape on the seafloor visible on Google Earth is raising cries of "UFO," but chances are … it's not aliens.
SpaceX's next new spacecraft to carry astronauts now shares a name with the first capsule to fly an American into space. Crew Dragon "Freedom" will make its debut with the launch of SpaceX's Crew-4.
The dino-killing asteroid lofted huge amounts of sulfur into Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, leading to rapid climate change.
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