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SpaceX's new Crew-4 Dragon capsule gets a name: Freedom
SpaceX's Crew-4 mission will launch toward the International Space Station on April 19. And the mission's Dragon capsule just got a name: Freedom.
Next Generation Telescopes Could Search for Intelligent Civilizations Directly
We’re still in the early days of searching for life elsewhere. The Perseverance rover is on its way to a paleo-delta on Mars to look for fossilized signs of ancient bacterial life. SETI’s been watching the sky with radio dishes, listening for signals from distant worlds. Our telescopes are beginning to scan the atmospheres of distant exoplanets for biosignatures.
SpaceX raises launch and Starlink prices, citing inflation
SpaceX just raised prices for its launch and Starlink internet services, citing the inflationary pinch that the rest of us are feeling as well.
Hundreds of Thousands of Stars Reveal the Milky Way’s “Teenage” Years
A census of hundreds of thousands of subgiant stars in our galaxy provides a window into the Milky Way's early history.
The Bohr model: The famous but flawed depiction of an atom
The Bohr model is a neat but quite imperfect depiction of the inner workings of an atom before things got too muddled up by quantum principles.
U.S. Space Force CHPS to Patrol Around the Moon
An innovative new network CHPS may control space traffic around the Moon.
We Now Understand Why Enceladus has ‘Tiger Stripe’ Cracks at its Southern Pole
One of the biggest surprises of the 13-year Cassini mission came in Enceladus, a tiny moon with active geysers at its south pole. At only about 504 kilometers (313 miles) in diameter, the bright and ice-covered Enceladus should be too small and too far from the Sun to be active. Instead, this little moon is one of the most geologically dynamic objects in the Solar System.
Meet Procyon, Orion’s Little Dog
Procyon Vitals Official name Procyon Other designations Alpha Canis Minoris, HR 2943, HD 61421 Nicknames - Apparent magnitude 0.37 Distance 11.46 light-years Type Main sequence, F5IV-V Color Yellow-white Mass […]
The best time to buy a telescope: Shop smart and save
Get the best price for your new telescope by shopping smart with these handy tips and discover the best time to buy a telescope
The double-slit experiment: Is light a wave or a particle?
The double-slit experiment was designed to investigate whether light is a wave or a particle. It is one of the most famous and weirdest experiments in physics.
Gaia finds parts of the Milky Way much older than expected
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have shown that a part of the Milky Way known as the ‘thick disc’ began forming 13 billion years ago, around 2 billion years earlier than expected, and just 0.8 billion years after the Big Bang.
Meet the 6 spaceflyers on Blue Origin's NS-20 mission
Five paying customers and one of Blue Origin's first 20 employees are scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard the company's New Shepard vehicle on March 29.
Lego Star Wars Boba Fett Helmet review
Boba Fett is perhaps the most iconic Lego Star Wars helmet yet.
Turning astronaut waste into fuel on Mars
Image: Turning astronaut waste into fuel on Mars
Spacewalk underway for space station maintenance, upgrades
Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station Wednesday for a spacewalk to install refurbished ammonia jumpers in the lab’s cooling system, to replace a high-definition camera and to make power and data connections on a European instrument platform.
10 most successful sci-fi movies at the Oscars
Fill your champagne flute and toast science fiction’s big winners that took home the gold at the Academy Awards!
Hubble telescope spies striking spiral galaxy that's part of a huge cosmic structure
The Hubble Space Telescope caught a galaxy on camera that underlies a much larger structure, known as the Virgo Cluster.
A spiderweb of wormholes could solve a fundamental paradox first proposed by Stephen Hawking
A seemingly intractable black hole paradox first proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking could finally be resolved — by wormholes through space-time.
'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 episode 2 offers epic updates to classic storylines
Much of this story arc features old ideas, but it's the refreshing new perspective that makes this compelling viewing
MTG-I weather satellite passes tests in preparation for liftoff
With extreme weather events threatening to be more frequent and more severe as the climate crisis takes grip, it’s never been more important to have fast and accurate forecasts. ESA and Eumetsat are working hard to ensure that there will be a constant stream of weather data from space for the next decades and that these data will arrive faster and be more accurate compared to what we have today. It is therefore fitting that on World Meteorological Day, ESA can be assured that the first of the next generation weather satellites, Meteosat Third Generation Imager, has passed a critical set of tests, paving the way for it to be launched in December.