A new crew of three astronauts are launching to the International Space Station late tonight, blasting off on a Russian Soyuz rocket out of Kazakhstan. The trio are heading to the station about a month ahead of SpaceX’s next crewed Dragon launch, which will bring another set of four astronauts […]
8 nations sign US-led Artemis Accords for moon exploration and beyond
NASA’s moon-exploring coalition is starting to come together.
The mountains on Pluto have super weird methane ice snowcaps
Mountains on Pluto have snowcaps that may have formed from the top down as opposed to the bottom up, the reverse of how snow caps form on Earth, a new study finds.
US and seven other countries sign NASA’s Artemis Accords to set rules for exploring the Moon
Today, NASA announced that eight countries — including the United States — have signed an international agreement known as the Artemis Accords, forming what NASA calls a broad and diverse coalition of nations committed to standardized lunar exploration.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Sets Reusability Record With New Rocket Launch
The New Shepard launch set a new record with 7 re-launches, one more than SpaceX’s Falcon 9 record.
How to see what’s on the other side of a wormhole without actually traveling through it
Wormholes are incredibly fascinating objects, but also completely hypothetical. We simply don’t know if they can truly exist in our universe. But new theoretical insights are showing how we may be able to detect a wormhole – from a spray of high-energy particles emitted at the moment of its formation.
Fake Asteroid Turns Out to Be a Remnant of a Failed Launch
There were three red flags that scientists picked out.