India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off with the EOS 4 radar satellite. Credit: ISRO
An Indian radar satellite and two rideshare payloads rode a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle into orbit Sunday, returning India’s space program to flight after the failure of a different type of rocket last August.
A rocket set to hit the moon March 4 might not be from SpaceX after all, astronomers now say. It may be a Chinese rocket stage.
SpaceX’s entire business model is based on the reusability of its rockets. That business model has proven viable time and time again as boosters continue to land safely only to be reused later. But as the rockets they’re using get bigger and bigger, the harder and harder it will get for them to land directly on the ground, as models they’ve completed so far have. So for its SuperHeavy Booster, designed to launch its Starship craft into orbit, SpaceX has to develop a new way of capturing the rockets without damaging them. Its head, Elon Musk, has shared a Twitter video showing how it will do just that.
Live coverage of the countdown and launch India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the EOS 4 radar remote sensing satellite and two rideshare payloads. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
If you want a handy definition of what’s “inside” the solar system, then the heliosphere is your best bet. This is a region dominated by particles constantly emanating from the Sun, and the Sun’s own magnetic field. This region extends out to millions of kilometers, well past the orbit of Pluto.
In a new video from NBCLX, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno and NBC sports producer Brad Fosler explain what Super Bowl LVI would look like on Mars.
It’s not often that the sudden appearance of a new impact crater on the Moon can be predicted, but it’s going to happen on March 4, when a derelict SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into it.
One of China's newest launch startups has been raising serious amounts of money for its range of increasingly complex "Gravity" launch vehicles.
India's first launch of 2022 will send a new Earth observation satellite to space after a sibling satellite was lost last year.
In August of 2016, astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that they had discovered an exoplanet orbiting in neighboring Proxima Centauri. Based on Radial Velocity measurements (aka. Doppler Photometry), the discovery team estimated that the planet was roughly the same size and mass as Earth and orbited with Proxima Centauri’s Circumsolar Habitable Zone (HZ). In 2020, this planet was confirmed by follow-up observations.
Scientists from the James Webb Space Telescope shared the first images from space taken by the new telescope. Since the 18-segment mirror is in the early stages of being aligned, the first image is understandably blurry and a bit jumbled. But its exactly what the team wanted to see.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity tells us that matter and energy bend and warp the fabric of spacetime. Indeed, this bending and warping is exactly what we experience as the force of gravity, since the deformations in spacetime instruct matter how to move. This bending doesn’t just apply to matter, but also to light.
Hulu will air a new "Futurama" animated series from creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen.
The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is officially the largest ever observed, according to new measurements.
A newly released time-lapse video shows the stacking of the huge Space Launch System rocket that will launch NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission in the coming months.
The full moon of February, called the Snow Moon, will arrive Wednesday (Feb. 16) at 11:57 a.m. EST (0457 GMT).
A special lens shows the telescope getting ready for work in the coming months.
The Big Bounce theory was once thought impossible. But recent research is keeping it alive.
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A stunning SpaceX animation released Thursday (Feb. 10) shows the Starship system on a future voyage to Mars.
Mars is a parched planet ruled by global dust storms. It’s also a frigid world, where night-time winter temperatures fall to -140 C (-220 F) at the poles. But it wasn’t always a dry, barren, freezing, inhospitable wasteland. It used to be a warm, wet, almost inviting place, where liquid water flowed across the surface, filling up lakes, carving channels, and leaving sediment deltas.
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