Remembering Saturn V, the Rocket That Took Us to the Moon

Saturn V cutaway

Above is a cutaway illustration showing the Saturn V launch vehicle and its major components.

Your Body Heat Could Power the Next Generation of Wearables

Thermoelectric generators probably won’t eliminate the charger for your Apple Watch, but for smaller, screenless wearables, the heat constantly escaping from your skin could fundamentally change how we power our devices.

Gadgets John Loeffler Sep 25

An artist's depiction of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft passing near Earth.

Japan’s Asteroid Probe Lost Its Last Working Engine. Engineers Have a Clever Fix

Hayabusa2 is on an extended mission to collect another batch of samples from a tiny asteroid.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Oct 6

Scientists Find Microbial Life Could Survive on Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus

Researchers created a mini Enceladus in the lab to see how microscopic life would fare in the moon's ocean.

Biology Passant Rabie Sep 28

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in orbit over Earth with hatch opened

SpaceX Is Retiring Crew Dragon, Forcing NASA to Bet Big on Boeing’s Troubled Starliner

What could possibly go wrong?

Space & Spaceflight Ellyn Lapointe Sep 18

NASA’s New $4 Billion Space Telescope Just Saw Starlight for the First Time. Here’s What It Saw

Roman joins Hubble and Webb as humanity’s eyes in space.

Space & Spaceflight Gayoung Lee Sep 17

Polar projection of Saturn’s southern hemisphere at a red wavelengths at 763 nm obtained on 29 August 2025 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A Giant Hexagon Has Been Spinning at Saturn’s North Pole for Decades. Now, Scientists Found Its Twin

Recent images by Hubble revealed a decagonal-shaped wave around Saturn's south pole

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Sep 2