Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
The Trump administration today exempted SpaceX’s Starlink routers from the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign-made routers. A…
Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing
After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big…
Rocket Lab wins $460 million contract with US military
Rocket Lab has secured a $266 million (NZ$460 million) contract with the United States military. The New Zealand-founded…
The 24-hour day is not fixed but slowly stretching, and in the dinosaurs’ time it was shorter: the Moon’s pull is gently braking Earth’s spin, so a day back then ran about 23.5 hours, and far shorter deeper in the past
The day you are living through right now is longer than any day a dinosaur ever saw. Not…
Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
Nobody knows where the phrase “Kill two birds with one stone” originated. But the fact that it—or a…
Mars rover finds evidence of repeated asteroid impacts on Mars
Earth’s earliest history has largely been erased by plate tectonics and erosion, but Mars has kept some of…
NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference
Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated July 27, 2026 to reflect an updated start time for the…
The Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower Is Bringing Subtle Breakthroughs for Every Zodiac Sign
How are you divas feeling after that treacherous Mercury Retrograde in Cancer? Truth be told, that was probably…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs had unexpected origins
A new study has found that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a rare, dry type of…
Amendment 67: D.3 AGIGO: Change to IXPE and NICER General Observer Second Opportunity in ROSES-25
The IXPE GO Program solicits proposals for investigations in any area of astrophysics (not constrained to IXPE’s prime…
NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse
Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly…
We have more accurate maps of the surface of Mars and the Moon than of the floor of our own ocean — less than a third of the seabed has been measured in real detail, meaning most of the largest landscape on the planet has never been surveyed up close by a ship
There is a better elevation map of the Moon than of the floor of the Pacific. On 20…