Space

Solar filaments are large magnetic structures confining cool and dense plasma suspended in the hot and tenuous corona.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers from Japan have probed a nearby starburst galaxy known as NGC 1482. They detected a molecular gas outflow that could be essential to improving the understanding of the galactic wind in NGC 1482. The finding is detailed in a paper published August […]

Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab successfully returned to flight late Sunday night, less than two months after the company’s previous mission failed to reach orbit during launch. The company’s primary rocket, the Electron, took off from Rocket Lab’s launch facility in New Zealand, deploying a small Earth-observing satellite into orbit […]

Hubble space telescope may be nearing the end of its life, but it’s not done astounding us just yet.

Update for 11:25 p.m. EDT: Rocket Lab has successfully launched an Electron booster carrying a satellite for Capella Space in a return-to-flight mission. Read our full story here.

Update for 8 p.m. EDT: If you’re looking for coverage of SpaceX’s successful SAOCOM 1B launch earlier tonight, read our full story here. Scroll down for a videoreplay.

Rocket Lab is back in action.

Congress in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act requires an annual update on the $150 million Space C2 program.