A quiet supersonic plane designed and built by NASA to usher in a new era of superfast air travel made a pitstop in Texas to perform crucial structural testing ahead of a debut flight later this year.
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How dark is your night sky? An observer's guide
Just one in five Americans lives under a sky dark enough to make out all four stars of the Little Dipper's bowl with the naked eye. Are you one of them?
Blue Origin plans to boost spaceflight launches in 2022: report
The space tourism company hopes to fly twice the number of people it did in 2021.
Save a whopping 50% on Starship Samurai board game
That's an out-of-this-world deal for Starship Samurai that saves you nearly $30.
The Parker Solar Probe Captures Surprising Images of Venus Nightside
A visible glow from our sister planet’s nightside sheds new light on a 300-year-old observing enigma dubbed the “ashen light.”
NASA says engine controller failure not a roadblock to first SLS test flight
Four RS-25 main engines at the bottom of the Space Launch System’s core stage. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston
NASA says a faulty memory chip was the cause of a problem that forced technicians to swap out an engine control computer on the first Space Launch System rocket late last year, but the issue is not a constraint for an upcoming SLS fueling test or launch later this spring.
Best sci-fi movies of the 80s
What are the best sci-fi movies of the 80s? It’s hard to condense a decade of greatness, but we’ve only gone and done it.
Sony unveils the PlayStation VR 2, giving a first look at the new design
The first look at the new design for the PSVR 2 has been released, and we're excited about it.
How to save money on Warhammer 40K
We've peered into the warp to help you save money on Warhammer 40K.
Stunning image shows galactic dance of stars swirling around a supermassive black hole
Young stars surround a supermassive black hole in a stunning new image captured by an instrument designed to search for dark energy.
China says moonbound rocket stage was not from 2014 lunar mission: report
Chang'e-5 T1 'completely burned up' in Earth's atmosphere shortly after launch, officials said.
'Burning' hydrogen plasma in the world's largest laser sets fusion records
The secret behind a record-breaking nuclear fusion experiment that spit out 10 quadrillion watts of power in a split second has been revealed.
Researchers unlock the keys to designing an interstellar sail
How do you design a sail that can get a spacecraft to another solar system?
Rogue planets: How wandering bodies in interstellar space ended up on their own
Finding more and more exoplanets to study has, as we might have expected, widened our understanding of what a planet is.
Fly around SpaceX's giant Starship rocket in this stunning drone video
The giant rocket aims to achieve orbit later in 2022.
One week left to apply for the 2022 YGT Programme!
The ESA YGT call for applications closes 28 February 2022. Don’t hesitate to apply and kick-start your career in space today! Positions are available in engineering, science, IT and business services. Find out more and apply now.
How Time Flies: Perseverance and Ingenuity Have Been on Mars for a Year
What a year it’s been — Earth year, that is!
NASA and HeroX are Crowdsourcing the Search for Life on Mars
For almost sixty years, robotic missions have been exploring the surface of Mars in search of potential evidence of life. More robotic missions will join in this search in the next fifteen years, the first sample return from Mars (courtesy of the Perseverance rover) will arrive here at Earth, and crewed missions will be sent there. Like their predecessors, these missions will rely on mass spectrometry to analyze samples of the Martian sands to look for potential signs of past life.
Neptune: Facts about the eighth planet from the sun
Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun and was the first to be predicted before it was discovered.
SpaceX adds 46 more satellites to Starlink fleet
A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Monday from Cape Canaveral with 46 more satellites for the company’s Starlink broadband network, deploying the internet relay payloads in a higher orbit than recent flights after atmospheric drag brought down more nearly 40 Starlink spacecraft from the previous mission.
