Space

SpaceX’s latest Starship Super Heavy booster is back on the launch pad, this time with its full complement of 33 engines.

With one week to go until launch, NASA managers met at the Kennedy Space Center, reviewed flight preparations and cleared the agency’s huge $4.1 billion Space Launch System rocket for blastoff next Monday on a test flight heralding an American-led return to the moon.

At what rate is the Moon moving away from Earth? What kinds of consequences will our planet see as our satellite moves farther away? Eliot H. Ginsberg Riverview, Florida Let’s first look at why the Moon is moving away from us. It boils down to one of Newton’s laws: conservation […]

La misión Prueba de redireccionamiento del asteroide doble (DART, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA, la primera en el mundo que pone a prueba una tecnología para defender a la Tierra de posibles peligros de asteroides o cometas, impactará con su objetivo, un asteroide que no supone ninguna […]

Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and enter interstellar space. The probe is still exploring the cosmos to this day.

Three instrumented mannequins strapped into seats on NASA’s Orion spacecraft awaiting liftoff on the first flight of the huge Space Launch System rocket will help engineers evaluate the human experience for future astronauts trips to the moon.

The Hercules Cluster (M13) is often cited as the grandest globular cluster north of the celestial equator. Located 25,000 light- years away, it hosts more than 100,000 stars crammed into a volume of space roughly 150 light-years in diameter. Although it is visible to the naked eye on dark, transparent […]

Morpheus Space President István Lőrincz weighs in on the evolution of its satellite propulsion systems and the future.

Fifty-three new Starlink internet satellites launched Friday from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, adding more capacity to the largest fleet of spacecraft ever put into orbit.

Rod Pyle and Geoffrey Notkin chat with NASA flight surgeon Bill Tarver on what it takes to survive in space.