Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah
Scientists have long known that volcanoes can launch large quantities of particles into the stratosphere. In the past…
Rocket Lab Satellite Platforms Built for MDA Space
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in…
Geomagnetic storm to hit Earth tomorrow
A coronal mass ejection triggered by a solar eruption on August 14 is expected to reach Earth on…
Satellite operators emphasize launch deals in a constrained market
WASHINGTON — Amid a constrained launch market, satellite operators are increasingly emphasizing to investors and customers that they…
The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image
IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…
Uranus and Neptune may not be what we thought
Scientists are rethinking Uranus and Neptune as new evidence suggests the so-called ice giants may contain far less…
Bringing space down to earth
Campers at the Cosmosphere use virtual reality headsets to interact with “ISS: Rupture,” an interactive game that simulates…
Scientists recreated the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan and watched molecules that shouldn’t mix form stable crystals together — at around minus 179°C, polar hydrogen cyanide accepts nonpolar methane and ethane into its crystal structure, breaking one of chemistry’s most familiar rules of thumb.
“Like dissolves like” is one of chemistry’s most useful shortcuts. Polar materials tend to associate with polar materials,…
We just got a glimpse at what NASA’s Skyfall helicopters will look like in action
If you just can’t wait for NASA’s new Mars helicopters to get to work, you can now see…
R-Selecting Tiny Probes To Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described…
U.S. Space Force and Japan complete QZSS hosted-payload launches to strengthen monitoring of geosynchronous orbit over Indo-Pacific
The U.S. Space Force and Japan have completed the second and final launch under their Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted…
NASA funds spherical ‘Aerobots’ that could explore the caves of Saturn’s moon Titan
Spherical “Aerobots” may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says…