Cape Canaveral, Florida. After a very busy year, SpaceX plans to start 2021 with the first launch sooner Thursday from Cape Canaveral, sending a Turkish communications satellite.The Space Coast hosted more than 30 missile launches last year, and in 2021…
SpaceX launched its latest releases Starship First prototype.The SN9's three engines lit up For about one second today (Jan 6) at 5:07 PM EST (2200 GMT) during a steady fire test at SpaceX facilities in South Texas, near the village…
High in the Atacama Desert in Chile, miles away from the faint glow of light pollution, the isolated Atacama Cosmological Telescope is in a prime position to search the sky for answers. The last question on his mind? The age…
Early initial design of SPHEREx. NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory- California Institute of Technology The Big Bang theory is a cosmological model that describes how our current observable universe arose. But there is still a lot to learn about the…
So far, we have discovered hundreds of stars with multiple orbiting planets spread across the entire galaxy. Each one is unique, but the system orbiting the star HD 158259, 88 light-years away, is truly special. The star itself is roughly…
Geyser hides underneath Yellowstone National Park He woke up recently. But don't worry: this doesn't mean that the massive volcano below the park will soon erupt, according to a new study. In March 2018, after a nap of 3.5 years,…
The Orion spacecraft will fly on NASA's unmanned Artemis I mission, possibly as late as 2021. NASA / Marvin Smith The past year has been a big hit for space missions. Now that we're official in 2021, NASA is looking…
The smallest known main serial star in the Milky Way is a true messenger of something.It's called EBLM J0555-57Ab, and it's a red dwarf 600 light-years away. With an average radius of about 59,000 km, it's just a simbridge Greater…
An extensive network of dozens of Roman army camps was discovered in a mountainous region of northern Spain. The camps show the size of the Roman army about 2,000 years ago during the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. "It reveals…
Photo: Robin Beck / Agence France-Presse (Getty Images)On January 3, 2004, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Soul He started making history. It landed on the Red Planet for the first time, launching one of NASA's longest and most successful missions -…
