SpaceX catches Starship booster but loses ship in seventh flight test (Image Credit: Mashable) SpaceX launched a new Starship rocket on Thursday, this time with an upgraded spacecraft and 10 mock satellites to practice a cargo delivery in space. But things didn’t go as planned. Though the company successfully caught the booster with giant mechanical arms […]
Jeff Bezos’ giant rocket just launched to space. Watch the footage. (Image Credit: Mashable) Jeff Bezos‘ new rocket, taller than the Statue of Liberty, has blasted into space. The giant 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket, named for legendary U.S. astronaut John Glenn, achieved a successful maiden launch after launching from Cape Canaveral Space […]
NASA image shows how close ruinous fire came to major NASA center (Image Credit: Mashable) Extreme wildfire is a driverless car. And it veered close to a major NASA center. After erupting in wooded hills outside of Los Angeles’ community of Altadena, the Eaton Fire — one of the damaging conflagrations impacting […]
SpaceX’s Starlink Group 11-8 smallsats to launch on Saturday (Image Credit: Sat News) This is a batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation. Photo courtesy of Explore Lompoc SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will launch Starlink Group 11-8 smallsats to low Earth orbit on Saturday from Vandenberg AFB at 7:57 AM – 12:28 PM […]
SpaceX’s Starship flight test seven now on Thursday (Image Credit: Sat News) The seventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Thursday, January 16. The 60-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT. SpaceX was scheduled to launch Starship from Boca Chica, Texas, at around 5 p.m. EST, but announced […]
Watch SpaceX exquisitely set free a pair of moon landers in space (Image Credit: Mashable) On its 100th launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted two lunar landers into space early Wednesday morning. The pair are two separate spacecraft from two different customers — one […]
Webb telescope just solved the ‘universe-breaking problem’ (Image Credit: Mashable) The James Webb Space Telescope might not have broken our understanding of the universe, after all. Previously, astronomers used Webb to spot curious, faint, and extremely ancient red dots that they surmised were giant galaxies. But there was a problem. It shouldn’t […]
Webb sees shockwave continuing hundreds of years after supernova blast (Image Credit: Mashable) Scientists have probed the remains of a star that died in a violent supernova and discovered that its shockwave continued reverberating through space, hundreds of years later. That shockwave eventually reached interstellar space, the medium that fills regions between […]
A strange black hole is acting even stranger (Image Credit: Mashable) A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads. The distant object, dubbed “1ES 1927+654” and packing the mass of 1 million suns, previously stunned astronomers when its corona — a billion-degree cloud of rapidly moving particles enveloping a black […]
NASA astronaut snaps photo of ‘totally amazing’ comet from space station (Image Credit: Mashable) One of the many advantages of being in space is having a front-row seat to the most anticipated cosmic events. NASA astronaut Don Pettit, flight engineer for the Expedition 72 crew, proved that when he witnessed Comet ATLAS […]
