Rocket returned, lightly used: Why Blue Origin’s landed New Glenn booster is so clean
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket aced its first-ever landing last week — and even managed to stay pretty,…
NASA’s Scott Tingle to Serve as Agency’s Chief Astronaut
NASA named astronaut Scott Tingle as chief of the Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in…
Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?
Over 4.5 billion years ago, a giant body smashed into Earth in a cosmic collision that birthed our…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will build a ‘super heavy’ version of its powerful New Glenn rocket
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is getting even more powerful. Jeff Bezos‘ spaceflight company announced today (Nov. 20)…
Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables
The Mayan calendars were maintained by specialists known as “daykeepers,” a cultural tradition that continues today. There is…
Electron launches confidential commercial satellite
BREMEN, Germany — Rocket Lab launched a payload for an undisclosed commercial customer Nov. 20, just hours after…
AI helps build the most detailed Milky Way simulation ever, mapping 100 billion stars
The most detailed supercomputer simulation ever of our Milky Way galaxy has been created by combining machine learning…
SpaceX Has Wildly Screwed Up Its Military Satellites, Researcher Finds
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images A new fleet of US spy…
Webb telescope images an aging binary star system in the center of a four-layered cosmic dust shell
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of…
“Very Old, Undisturbed Structure” May Have Been Discovered Beyond Neptune, Over 6 Billion Kilometers From The Sun
A team looking at the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the ring-shaped region of icy bodies…
The ultimate backup: why humanity needs a lunar seed vault — now
Humanity is losing the genetic diversity that sustains life on Earth at a pace that should alarm every…
Spot Uranus shining at its brightest this year — here’s what to expect on Nov. 21
November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as…