Package of new laws help clear the way for SpaceX deal in Louisiana
LOUISIANA — A legislative package signed into law ahead of SpaceX’s $100 billion Starship launchpad announcement in Vermilion…
The Moon is getting its own version of air traffic control
Engineers developed a lunar traffic control system to help spacecraft safely dock, park, and avoid collisions around NASA’s…
Rocket Lab Just Sold Its First Full Neutron Flight to Kepler Communications. Here’s What That Means in Its Competition With SpaceX.
Although it’s now been more than two months since its ballyhooed initial public offering, all eyes are still…
Artemis II astronauts receive nation’s highest space honor for their successful moonshot | Artemis II
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on…
Thousands of Interstellar Objects May Be Lurking in Our Solar System
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that went interstellar, entombed the sky, hit…
Webb reveals the chaotic aftermath of a galaxy merger
Webb peers into Arp 263, a nearby irregular galaxy still bearing the scars of a violent merger and…
Nancy Grace Roman Telescope live updates: Roman and Falcon Heavy delivered to launch pad
2026-08-29T12:47:32.093Z Roman and Falcon Heavy standing on the launch pad A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket stands at lc-39a…
How did the solar system form? Ancient meteorite reveals a key magnetic force alongside gravity
How did the solar system form? Ancient meteorite reveals a key magnetic force alongside gravity – Futura-Sciences August…
Goliath The Squirrel Monkey: A 1.5-pound squirrel monkey named Goliath was launched from Cape Canaveral in 1961; 35 seconds later, the Atlas E rocket was destroyed after the flight went wrong |
Goliath weighed barely less than a carton of milk and stood just six inches tall, but he became…
SpaceX test-fires Starship Super Heavy booster ahead of critical Flight 14
SpaceX just took another step toward the highly anticipated next test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company…
In 1965, two radio engineers at Bell Labs spent months scraping pigeon droppings out of a giant horn antenna trying to eliminate a faint background hiss they couldn’t explain, only to discover the noise was the leftover heat of the Big Bang itself, arriving from every direction at once
A twenty foot horn antenna built to bounce satellite signals across an ocean, and two grown men standing…
NASA once sent chicken eggs to space with funding from KFC
The 1980s had no shortage of strange ideas, but this one might take the cake… or the chicken.…