SpaceX has fired up the rocket that will ferry its next cargo shipment to the International Space Station early Saturday morning.
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The science behind Destiny 2’s Lorentz Driver weapon
After 17 successful flights to space and back, Blue Origin is ready to move its launch operations to your backyard. The company, which was founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, announced an Estes's model rocket version of its New Shepard launch vehicle.
Nikkor AF-S 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens review
Comets from other star systems, such as 2019 Borisov, visit the sun's neighborhood more frequently than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.
Satellite images show crowds at Kabul airport before two reported explosions
Massive crowds converged at Hamid Karzai International Airport before explosions there killed and injured dozens on Thursday (Aug. 26).
Hero Collector's 'Star Trek: The Original Series — A Celebration' salutes 55 years of iconic science fiction
Hero Collector is launching a new "Star Trek: The Original Series" retrospective hardcover on Sept. 21 in time for the show’s 55th birthday
Interstellar Objects Might Outnumber Solar System Objects in the Oort Cloud
Our solar system is filled with everything from planets to rocky asteroids to small icy bodies beyond Pluto, but surrounding all of it is a diffuse halo of objects known as the Oort cloud. We haven’t directly observed the Oort cloud, but we’re pretty sure it’s there by observing the distribution of comet in our solar system. They can appear from any direction in the sky rather than just along the common plane of known solar system bodies.
Blue Origin's New Shepard tests moon landing tech and more in uncrewed suborbital launch
New Shepard aced its latest mission this morning (Aug. 26), an uncrewed jaunt that carried a variety of scientific experiments, as well as some pioneering artwork, to and from suborbital space.
Welcome Back, Stellafane
After two years apart, amateur astronomers and telescope makers from around the country met at the top of Breezy Hill to enjoy the stars with old and new friends.
North Korean missile test captures photos of Earth from space: report
A new strategy game called "Humankind" was released last week and its trailer had a hilarious Apollo 11 twist.
Curious Kids: Will the big storm on Jupiter ever go away?
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has successfully completed its final tests and is being prepared for shipment to its launch site at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Saturn’s ‘Fuzzy Core’ Seen In Ring Ripples
Seismic waves in Saturn’s rings reveal the strange ‘fuzzy core’ interior of the planet within.
New observations challenge popular radio burst model
Strange behavior caught by two radio observatories may send theorists back to the drawing board.
Launch company Rocket Lab goes public
California-based Rocket Lab just completed its previously announced merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
You can watch 'Mars Calling,' a new Red Planet documentary, for free now on MagellanTV
The documentary "explores the prospect of humans visiting and settling Mars" and how we'll get there.
Hubble captures gorgeous image of 'Einstein ring' from warped quasar light
Astronomers use the rings to study remote galaxies and to measure the masses of the objects that create them.
Webb brochure, interactive or PDF, available in six languages
Galaxies – massive collections of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems – are a fundamental component of our universe.
Telescopes at Best Buy: Black Friday discounts and stock
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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet takes you on a tour of the International Space Station like no other. Filmed with a 360 camera, the Space Station 360 series lets you explore for yourself alongside Thomas’s explanation – starting with Europe’s science laboratory, Columbus.
Watch Blue Origin launch its New Shepard rocket on an uncrewed suborbital flight today
Liftoff is scheduled for 9:35 a.m. EDT (1335 GMT).
Advanced Civilizations Could be Using Dyson Spheres to Collect Energy From Black Holes. Here’s how we Could Detect Them
Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them – they’re also one of the universe’s biggest and most stable energy sources. That would make them invaluable to the type of civilization that needs huge amounts of power, such as a Type II Kardashev civilization. But to harness all of that power, the civilization would have to encircle the entire black hole with something that could capture the power it is emitting.
This is How a Supermassive Black Hole Feeds
At the heart of most massive galaxies in our Universe, there are supermassive black holes (SMBH) that are on the order of millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun. As these behemoths slowly consume gas and dust that is slowly fed into their maws, they release tremendous amounts of energy. This leads to what is known as an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) – aka. a quasar – which can sometimes send hypervelocity jets of material for light-years.
