Space

The launch of the 40th Electron rocket mission was aborted during the engine ignition sequence at about 3 a.m. EDT (0700 UTC) on Sunday. Rocket Lab has scrubbed the launch for the day.

A satellite called XRISM will use X-ray detection instruments to probe the high-energy universe like never before. Both NASA and Japan are involved in the mission.

SpaceX launched the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite atop a Falcon Heavy rocket on Friday. The triple-core rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s pad 39A with the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 satellite at 11:04 p.m. EDT (0304 UTC Saturday).

Ever since neutron stars were discovered, researchers have been using their unusual properties to probe our universe. The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack a mass greater than the Sun’s into a ball about as wide as San Francisco. A single cup of this star matter would weigh […]

NASA has selected PCI Productions (PCIP), LLC, of Huntsville, Alabama, to provide technical and administrative services in support of directorates, programs, and offices at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

Marvel Studios dropped new trailer for “The Marvels”

SpaceX will attempt to launch another 22 second-generation Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday night after scrapping plans for a launch double-header with a Falcon Heavy rocket. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:10 p.m. EDT (0310 […]

Friday, July 28The solar system has plenty to share with us this evening. Mercury passes 0.1° south of Regulus at 9 P.M. EDT. Regardless of your time zone, you can observe the pair starting shortly after local sunset, looking west as twilight falls. Three planets are visible: Lowest is Venus, […]

Media are invited to see the new test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the hardware teams will use to recover the capsule and astronauts upon their return from space during the Artemis II mission. The event will take place at 11 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Naval […]

NASA’s solar-powered spacecraft, Juno, will take another spin past Jupiter’s moon Io on Sunday (July 30) with its 52nd pass being its closest approach to the volcanic moon yet.