Space

The forces and interactions we see and experience every day seem infinite. But they all stem from just four fundamental forces of nature.

A poor weather forecast at the Guiana Space Center in South America has forced officials to delay the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope by one day to Dec. 25, Christmas morning, mission managers said Tuesday.

A Japanese H-2A rocket launched a commercial communications satellite for Inmarsat Wednesday. The satellite rode the most powerful variant of the H-2A rocket, built and operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Liftoff occurred at 10:32 a.m. EST (1532 GMT).

Propelled by the supermassive black hole’s magnetic field, this jet stretches to galactic proportions.

NASA has awarded a contract to Mitchell Vantage Systems LLC of Oklahoma City for software products, services, and engineering support.

SpaceX launched a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station at 5:07 a.m. EST (1007 GMT) Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying more than 6,500 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 5:07 a.m. EST Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Inmarsat-6 F1 satellite is scheduled to launch Wednesday (Dec. 22) from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, during a two-hour window that opens at 9:33 a.m. EST (1433 GMT). Watch it live!

Two Japanese space tourists and a veteran Russian cosmonaut departed the International Space Station and landed back on Earth Sunday, capping a 12-day mission with a parachute-assisted touchdown in frigid Kazakhstan.

NASA and other world space agencies have been studying this possibility and the forecast for near-earth celestial objects for years. Their efforts helped inform the new film ‘Don’t Look Up!’