Rocket Lab’s 51st Electron rocket stands at Pad B in Mahia, New Zealand, in preparation for the launch of the “Owl for One, Owl for All” mission. Image: Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is preparing for its ninth launch of 2024 and its 51st Electron rocket launch to date. The mission will send an Earth observing satellite to low Earth orbit on behalf of Japan-based Synspective.
Space sustainability company Astroscale has launched a free computer game that allows players to test their space debris catching skills in a simulation based on the company's real mission.
This months' full moon falls on Aug. 19 and it will be the only full moon of August 2024. So how can we call it a "Blue Moon?"
A preview of IDW's upcoming "Star Trek: Lower Decks" comic book series.
Preliminary evidence for gases that could be biosignatures have been found in the atmosphere of Venus, but even if these biosignatures are real, does it necessarily imply life?
The Perseid meteors ramp up this week to their peak. Saturn is nicely up by late evening. Jupiter and Mars near their conjunction in the morning sky. And there's a story behind Poniatowski's Bull.
The ninth crew rotation for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 18 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Launch Complex 39A ahead of the Starlink 6-51 mission on April 17, 2024. Image: Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is preparing to launch its latest batch of Starlink satellites, increasing its mega-constellation in low Earth orbit. The mission comes as the company is simultaneously working towards the launch of a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station over the weekend.
Panspermia is an innately attractive idea that’s gained prominence in recent decades. Yet, among working scientists, it gets little attention. There are good reasons for their relative indifference, but certain events spark renewed interest in panspermia, even among scientists.
Don't know your Claptrap from your Handsome Jack? Here's everything you need to know about the Borderlands video games before seeing the movie.
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider have failed to turn up potential dark matter candidates, but could galaxy cluster smashes be used as cosmic dark matter colliders?
NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.
A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.
It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.
Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at 6,700 mph.
The most widely recognized explanation for planet formation is the accretion theory. It states that small particles in a protoplanetary disk accumulate gravitationally and, over time, form larger and larger bodies called planetesimals. Eventually, many planetesimals collide and combine to form even larger bodies. For gas giants, these become the cores that then attract massive amounts of gas over millions of years.
We closely examine Darth Plagueis and Yoda's cameos in the finale of 'The Acolyte' and try to figure out how they might be used in the future.
It's time again for the annual August meteor-shower fest, the Perseids. This year's display should be a beauty with only minor moonlight and a special surprise at dawn.
There is a moment when building Lego's new NASA-inspired set that the assembly goes from looking like plastic bricks to being a moon buggy. Then you realize you're not even a quarter of the way done.
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