Artist’s impression of a red giant star. Their cores are cauldrons where carbon-12 is produced. Credit:NASA/ Walt Feimer
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NASA, Boeing ready for long-delayed, high-stakes Starliner test flight
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was hoisted on top of ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket May 4 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: United Launch Alliance
Running years late, Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule program is poised for a crucial unpiloted test flight to the International Space Station set for launch Thursday, a do-over of an abbreviated 2019 demo mission that has cost the aerospace contractor nearly $600 million.
Watch SpaceX launch 53 new Starlink satellites early Wednesday
SpaceX plans to launch 53 more Starlink internet satellites and land the returning rocket on a ship at sea early Wednesday morning (May 18), and you can watch all the action live.
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 2 adds a lot to Uhura's backstory
A comet threatens to impact into an inhabited world, plus Pike ponders if his own future is preordained in episode 2 of "Strange New Worlds."
'The Orville' Season 3 full trailer is here for June 2 debut on Hulu
Eleven glorious episodes of "The Orville" will gracefully land on Hulu weekly starting June 2. Watch the full trailer here.
NASA's Mars lander InSight has only a few months to live on the Red Planet
NASA's Mars lander InSight has only a few months of science life left as it faces dwindling power from Martian dust.
Save $142 on this massive Playmobil Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise set
This deal may not last long, but you will prosper.
New astronauts have changes in their brains after their first long-duration mission
Astronauts who go on their first long-duration space mission have differences in their brains compared with the brains of more experienced astronauts and non-astronauts.
Boeing's Starliner remains on track for crucial Thursday launch to space station
Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi remains on track to launch on a crucial test flight to the International Space Station on Thursday (May 19).
These beginner telescopes from Celestron are on sale for under $100 at Amazon
Amazon is currently holding a sale on a couple of beginner telescopes from Celestron and they're under $100.
US military taking 'all hands on deck' approach to understanding UFOs
The U.S. military aims to more systematically classify and characterize reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), officials said during a congressional hearing on Tuesday (May 17).
Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2: Live updates
Read live updates of Boeing's second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on May 19.
The 'twin paradox' shows us what it really means for time to be relative
What goes for moving clocks goes for everything else; physics, chemistry and biology all operate at a slower pace in moving frames of reference.
Merging Supermassive Black Holes Gives us a New Way to Measure the Universe
The study of black holes has advanced immensely in the past few years. In 2015, the first gravitational waves were observed by scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). This finding confirmed what Einstein predicted a century before with General Relativity and offered new insight into black hole mergers. In 2019, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration shared the first image of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), which resides at the center of the M87 galaxy.
Solar flares: What are they and how do they affect Earth?
There are five different types of solar flares. Discover what solar flares are, what causes them and the effects they have on Earth in our solar flare guide.
Watch the Humans to Mars Summit 2022: Red Planet travel and international relations take center stage
The 2022 Humans to Mars Summit kicks off on Tuesday (May 17) in Washington, D.C.
Meet the crew of Blue Origin's NS-21 space tourism mission
The six crewmembers include one person who has flown to space with Blue Origin before.
The science and cargo of Boeing's OFT-2 Starliner mission to the space station
Making sure Starliner is ready to carry astronauts involves a crucial step in the scientific process: experimentation.
Blue Origin's NS-21 space tourism launch: When to watch and what to know
The fifth crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle is scheduled to lift off Friday (May 20) at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT).
What is astronomical twilight?
Astronomical twilight is the darkest phase of twilight that a viewer sees before the last refracted sunlight leaves the horizon. It usually occurs twice a day.
Did a 5th Giant Planet Mess up the Orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
The solar system’s current planetary orbits seem stable, but that’s only because the planets have settled into them over billions of years. The early solar system was a much different place than that seen today, and for almost 20 years, scientists thought they had a good handle on how it got that way. But more recently, data had started pointing to some flaws in that understanding – especially about how the giant planets in the outer solar system got where they are today. Now an international team of astrophysicists thinks they have a better understanding of that process, and they believe it could help solve a long-standing argument about the early solar system.
