Space & Spaceflight

SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket At Cape Canaveral

While many eyes are on the rocket Kim just launched at Taylor, SpaceX was busy sending a payload up to ISS and and trying out another experimental landing of a rocket. And SpaceX succeeded! The first stage segment of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed in Cape Canaveral only about 5 minutes after launching. While…

Space & Spaceflight Alex Cranz

This Is NASA’s New Mars Rover

NASA is racing to finish a new Mars rover, and the mission just got a launch and land date. The new rover will leave Earth by August 2020, and in February of 2021, it will hit the surface of the Red Planet to search for signs of life. If the unnamed rover—which NASA is temporarily…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

New 3D Map of the Universe Features a Whopping 1.2 Million Galaxies

The astronomical map you see here doesn’t depict stars, it shows galaxies—1.2 million of them, to be exact, a new record for astronomers. This extraordinary new 3D scan of the universe provides yet more evidence that a mysterious substance known as dark energy is likely causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. The…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

A New Tool on the ISS Could Help Us Find Alien Life

The ISS is getting an incredible new tool: a handheld DNA sequencer. The questions scientists hope it will answer include whether life exists beyond our planet and just what is that weird fungus growing on the wall of the space station? The biomolecule sequencer, called a minION, will be part of the cargo that SpaceX…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Astronomers Just Spotted a Water Snow Line Around a Star for the First Time

A telescope just snagged the very first image of a water snow line drifting around a young star in space—and it could transform what we know about how planets form. The extreme conditions around young stars sometimes means that water goes directly from gas into snow and ice, skipping the liquid phase entirely. The region…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Has Captured Its First Photo Since Arriving at Jupiter

This image taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft is one of the first to be taken by the probe since it entered Jupiter’s orbit last week. It’s not the most spectacular image we’ve seen of Jupiter and its moons, but it’s a positive sign that the spacecraft’s visible light camera, the JunoCam, is operational and capable…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

We Now Know What Caused the Curiosity Rover to Glitch Out

Curiosity is finally back in action, after it threw itself into a mysterious partial shutdown last week, briefly falling out of communication with Earth. Now, NASA has figured out the cause—and the culprit is also one of Curiosity’s best features. The problem stemmed from Curiosity’s cameras and how they stored their image data. A software…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

This Is the Deepest View Yet Into the Orion Nebula

Astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope in Chile have captured the deepest view yet of the heart of the Orion Nebula. Wow. Located 1,350 light-years from the sun, the Orion Nebula star-formation measures about 24 light-years across. It’s visible to the naked eye, appearing as a fuzzy patch in Orion’s sword. Like other nebulae,…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Ancient Cosmic Explosions May Have Impacted Evolution

Millions of years ago, a pair of exploding stars showered our planet with radioactive fallout. Had those supernovae popped off a bit closer to home, Earth’s biosphere would have been toast. But even at a distance of 300 light years, the stellar events might have had an impact on the evolution of life here. The…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

There’s a New Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Pluto’s Orbit

Say hello to 2015 RR245, a 440-mile-wide dwarf planet located approximately 7.5 billion miles from the sun. It takes 700 years to make a complete orbit, making it one of the most remote known objects in the entire solar system of significant size. The newly discovered dwarf planet was discovered by an international team of…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

This Bizarre Galaxy Is Younger on the Inside Than the Outside

A fairly ordinary-looking galaxy has been hiding a strange secret in plain sight. It is ten times larger than anyone thought (a whopping 718,000 light-years in diameter), plus it’s younger on the inside than it is on the out. Scientists think that it’s been stitched together from the pieces of several other galaxies—hence its nickname,…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Thanks Space For Making These Astronauts Nearsighted

We know that astronauts’ bodies are heavily impacted by their time in space, but as more of them come back to Earth following longer and longer stays without gravity, more issues are going to arise. Take for example the case of astronaut John Phillips, who was aboard the International Space Station in 2005. According to…

Space & Spaceflight Carli Velocci

Scientists Find First Instance of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System

A cloudy day here on Earth might be a sign for gloom, but elsewhere in the universe, to behold one is a scientific achievement. In this case, a team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz announced that they have detected water clouds for the first time outside our solar system on a brown dwarf known…

Space & Spaceflight Carli Velocci

There’s a Secret Message Written Into the Sands of Mars

NASA has spotted something strange and beautiful in the sands of Mars—a remarkable dune field that looks eerily similar to Morse code. And it has a message for us. The dunes in this photo were recently spotted by Hi-RISE, a visible light and near-IR camera that’s been snapping stunning portraits of the Red Planet’s surface…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

This Planet With Three Suns Shouldn’t Even Exist

Three hundred and twenty light years away in the Centaurus constellation sits one of the strangest planets humans have ever laid eyes on. It’s four times as massive as Jupiter and orbits twice as far out as Pluto—around one of its three suns. Using a new instrument at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope,…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

We Finally Know What’s Inside the Crab Nebula

The Crab Nebula is one of the most photographed and studied objects in space. But we didn’t know what was inside until now, when astronomers got a look at the strange mess that lies beneath. Hubble grabbed this new shot of the exploded star spinning at the center of the nebula. The star is spinning…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

NASA Sent Jupiter’s Jealous Wife to Check Up on Him and His Satellites

NASA’s Juno spacecraft made all the headlines this past Fourth of July as it successfully went into orbit around Jupiter after a five-year journey—and deservedly so. But not many people realized the significance of the name. In Roman mythology, Juno was the god Jupiter’s wife—and Jupiter had one hell of a roaming eye. Before it…

Space & Spaceflight Jennifer Ouellette

Watch the Soyuz Launch Three Astronauts to the Space Station Live

Three new astronauts will start a trip up to the International Space Station tonight—and it all begins with a ride on the Soyuz spacecraft. Watch it launch live right here at 9:36 p.m. EDT. The astronauts—NASA’s Kate Rubins, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscomos’ Anatoly Ivanishin—will be making the trip as part of Expedition 49. They’ll…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

The Prospects for Alien Life on Titan Keep Getting Better

Saturn’s moon Titan is a frigid hellscape by Earth standards, but it’s also one of the most hopeful spots for discovering alien life in our solar system. A new scientific paper hints that conditions on Titan’s surface might be favorable for the chemistry of life to emerge. Titan is the only other world we know…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died

Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died. When JAXA launched Hitomi in February of this year, scientists were giddy over the possibilities of what the black hole monitoring satellite might tell…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket At Cape Canaveral

This Is NASA’s New Mars Rover

New 3D Map of the Universe Features a Whopping 1.2 Million Galaxies

A New Tool on the ISS Could Help Us Find Alien Life

Astronomers Just Spotted a Water Snow Line Around a Star for the First Time

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Has Captured Its First Photo Since Arriving at Jupiter

We Now Know What Caused the Curiosity Rover to Glitch Out

This Is the Deepest View Yet Into the Orion Nebula

Ancient Cosmic Explosions May Have Impacted Evolution

There’s a New Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Pluto’s Orbit

This Bizarre Galaxy Is Younger on the Inside Than the Outside

Thanks Space For Making These Astronauts Nearsighted

Scientists Find First Instance of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System

There’s a Secret Message Written Into the Sands of Mars

This Planet With Three Suns Shouldn’t Even Exist

We Finally Know What’s Inside the Crab Nebula

NASA Sent Jupiter’s Jealous Wife to Check Up on Him and His Satellites

Watch the Soyuz Launch Three Astronauts to the Space Station Live

The Prospects for Alien Life on Titan Keep Getting Better

This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died

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Space & Spaceflight

SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket At Cape Canaveral

This Is NASA’s New Mars Rover

New 3D Map of the Universe Features a Whopping 1.2 Million Galaxies

A New Tool on the ISS Could Help Us Find Alien Life

Astronomers Just Spotted a Water Snow Line Around a Star for the First Time

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Has Captured Its First Photo Since Arriving at Jupiter

We Now Know What Caused the Curiosity Rover to Glitch Out

This Is the Deepest View Yet Into the Orion Nebula

Ancient Cosmic Explosions May Have Impacted Evolution

There’s a New Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Pluto’s Orbit

This Bizarre Galaxy Is Younger on the Inside Than the Outside

Thanks Space For Making These Astronauts Nearsighted

Scientists Find First Instance of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System

There’s a Secret Message Written Into the Sands of Mars

This Planet With Three Suns Shouldn’t Even Exist

We Finally Know What’s Inside the Crab Nebula

NASA Sent Jupiter’s Jealous Wife to Check Up on Him and His Satellites

Watch the Soyuz Launch Three Astronauts to the Space Station Live

The Prospects for Alien Life on Titan Keep Getting Better

This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!