Space

 We knew that the second season of “The Mandalorian” would air sometime in October and one rumor suggested it might be as early as Oct. 7 … but we now have an exact premiere date confirmed by Disney Plus: Oct. 30. 

Raytheon is one of several major defense contractors selected by the U.S. Air Force for the program known as “defense experimentation using commercial space internet.”

In the near future, launch facilities located at sea are expected to be a lot more common. SpaceX announced that it is hoping to create offshore facilities in the near future for the sake of launching the Starship away from populated areas. And China, the latest member of the superpowers-in-space […]

NASA on Thursday announced it was in the market for Moon rocks, and wants to pay companies to scoop out the dirt, take a photo, and then have it ready for collection by a future mission.

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have found that something may be missing from the theories of how dark matter behaves. This missing ingredient may explain why researchers have uncovered an unexpected discrepancy between observations of the dark […]

Sen. Cramer: The Space Force caucus will provide an avenue to craft bipartisan legislative ideas.

Ice sheets’ mass-loss rates in Greenland and Antarctica now match the Climate Change’s worst-case sea-level rise scenarios. Time to get serious about it?

 SpaceX has unveiled a stunning new video that gives a rocket’s-eye view of the launch and landing of its recent SAOCOM-1B mission, which lofted an Argentinean satellite into orbit on Aug. 30.  

The Earth’s magnetic field traps high-energy particles. When the first satellites were launched into space, scientists led by James Van Allen unexpectedly discovered the high-energy particle radiation regions, which were later named after its discoverer: the Van Allen Radiation Belts. Visualized, these look like two donut-shaped regions encompassing the planet.