Oct 8, 2026 | Featured, Space
Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station in a scenic splashdown Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast. The SpaceX crew capsule deployed its giant parachutes high above the ocean to slow its descent,...
Sep 23, 2026 | Featured, Space
The California-based asteroid-mining company has booked its Autonomy-1 mission on the first-ever flight of Stoke Space’s Nova Pathfinder rocket, which is scheduled to launch in early 2027. As its name suggests, Autonomy-1 will operate independently, thanks to...
Sep 15, 2026 | Metals, Space
Scientists have used an X-ray detector on a sounding rocket, a type of research rocket that flies to the edge of space, then returns to Earth within minutes, to document metal dendrites—the branching structures that form as liquid metal cools—forming in microgravity...
Sep 10, 2026 | Featured, Space
NASA’s long-distance spacecraft-calling network just got a boost. The Deep Space Network (DSN), best known for communicating with distant spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons, added a 114-foot (34-meter) radio-frequency antenna in California,...
Sep 3, 2026 | Dark Matter, Engineering, Space
An analysis from what is known as the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has recorded a particle interaction that might be bringing scientists just one step closer to answers on the matter of dark matter. As Northwestern explained, researchers said the particle interaction cannot...
Aug 31, 2026 | Featured, Space
Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the...
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