The "Saturday Night Live" star and five other people are scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle on March 23.
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2 giant blobs in Earth's mantle may explain Africa's weird geology
One of Earth's two mysterious mantle blobs is much higher than the other, raising questions about its impact on Earth's surface.
Russia's Ukraine invasion could imperil international science
The Russian invasion of Ukraine could have serious consequences for those organizations pursuing scientific endeavors.
Astra’s return-to-flight launch ready for liftoff from Alaska
Astra’s Rocket 3.3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Feb. 10. Credit: Brady Kenniston / Astra
Astra engineers identified two problems — an electrical design issue and a software glitch — that prevented a rocket from reaching orbit last month with a suite of NASA-sponsored CubeSats, clearing the way for a return-to-flight mission that could launch from Alaska as soon as Monday.
You can watch Astra launch a commercial rocket from Alaska today. Here's how.
The private spaceflight startup Astra will launch a commercial mission for Spaceflight, Inc. today and you can watch it live online.
The 20 most memorable SpaceX missions from its 1st 20 years in photos
SpaceX has launched about 150 missions in its first 20 years. Here's a look at 20 of the most important and memorable of them.
8 ways that SpaceX has transformed spaceflight
Reusing rockets and dreaming big are some of the things that have made SpaceX stand out.
NASA's DART asteroid-slamming mission builds on tiny diamond-tipped tool tech
Asteroid samples collected during the Hayabusa mission have helped scientists better model potential impacts of near-Earth objects.
What's it like inside a massive galaxy cluster? Scientists used 196 lasers to find out.
An Earthbound experiment is replicating the extreme heat found in galaxy clusters located in deep space using nearly 200 lasers.
40 Telescopes Watched the Sun as the Parker Solar Probe Made its Most Recent Flyby
Sometimes in space, even when you’re millions of kilometers from anything, you’re still being watched. Or at least that’s the case for the Parker Solar Probe, which completed the 11th perihelion of its 24 perihelion journey on February 25th. While the probe was speeding past the Sun, it was being watched by over 40 space and ground-based telescopes.
According to a US Auditor, Each Launch of the Space Launch System Will Cost an “Unsustainable” $4.1 Billion
This will likely come as a surprise to no one who has closely watched the development of NASA’s next giant rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), but it’s going to be expensive to use. Like, really expensive – to the tune of $4.1 billion per launch, according to the NASA Inspector General. That’s over double the original expected launch cost.
The first 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' trailer is here with a cowboy Pike
The first teaser trailer for the next live-action "Star Trek" spinoff, "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," has beamed in from Paramount Plus.
An asteroid the size of a bus flies by Earth today and you can watch it live online
You can watch a big asteroid make a safe flyby of Earth today (March 11) from any spot with good internet access.
Are there any moons that are made of gas?
The planets in our solar system come in two forms: Some are rocky, and some are gaseous. But all of the moons in our solar system are rocky, even the ones that orbit gas giants. So why aren't some moons in the solar system made of gas? And are there gaseous moons anywhere in the universe?
Can you really purchase and name a star?
Some companies make money out of 'selling stars', or rather selling opportunities to name them, perhaps as a gift to a loved one. But is it really worth the money?
New supernova identified in the weird Cartwheel galaxy
A new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) captures a stunning view of the Cartwheel galaxy following a recent stellar explosion.
Happy birthday, Albert Einstein. We need you right now. (Op-Ed)
Albert Einstein saw beyond human tribalism to an enlightened realm of tolerance. We can too: He left us clear directions for how to do it.
What is the Kardashev Scale?
Are we alone in the Universe? Could there be countless sentient life forms out there just waiting to be found? Will we meet them someday and be able to exchange knowledge? Will we even recognize them as intelligent life forms if and when we see them? Or worse, will they recognize us as intelligent life? When it comes to astrobiology, the search for life in the Universe, we don’t know what to expect. Hence, the speculation and theoretical studies into these questions are so rich and varied!
An 1874 Citizen Science Project Studying the Aurora Borealis Helped Inspire Time Zones
For millennia, humans have gazed at the northern lights with wonder, pondering their nature and source. Even today, these once mysterious phenomena still evoke awe, though we understand them a little better now. Still, most of our knowledge about the northern lights has come recently, in the last century or two. Astronomers and meteorologists of the 1800s worked for years to understand the aurora, wondering if they were a feature of Earth’s atmospheric weather, of outer space, or, perhaps, something that straddled the boundary in-between. This centuries-old attempt to understand the northern lights was an immense, international-scale project, and, through fortunate happenstance, it even helped inspire one of the underlying foundations of modern society – time zones.
Astronomy Jargon 101: Planetary Nebula
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll be confused with an actual planet after today’s topic: planetary nebula!
Satellite images spot Russian artillery firing on Kyiv, Ukraine
New satellite views from space show the Russian military moving towards Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday (March 11).
