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SpaceX Does it Again with Second Retrieval of Falcon Heavy Rocket
This week, SpaceX conducted the first commercial launch of the Falcon Heavy (and second launch overall) and managed to bring…
Voyager and Pioneer’s Grand Tour of the Milky Way
A new study takes a look at where the Voyager and Pioneer probes might one day venture to as they…
SOFIA Follows the Sulfur for Clues on Stellar Evolution
A high-flying space telescope is shedding light on where some of the basic building blocks for life may have originated…
Messier 83 – the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
Located in the direction of the Hydra constellation, over 15 million light years from Earth, is the barred spiral galaxy…
Now We Know That Dark Matter Isn’t Primordial Black Holes
A new study by an international team of scientists has tested Hawking's theory of dark matter, and ruled out that…
The Starhops Have Begun!
After a minor delay, SpaceX has conducted the first successful hop test of their Starship Hopper, a key step in…
Starhopper Tests Have Gotten Delayed Because of “Ice Formation in the Cryogenic Propellant Prevalves”
A technical issue has led to the "hop test" of the miniature version of the SpaceX Starship to be delayed…
Satellites Watched a Huge Fireball Explode Above the Bering Sea Late Last Year
NASA's Terra satellites recently spotted a fiery meteorite in Earth's atmosphere, which exploded above the Bering Sea.
SpaceX Releases a New Render of What the All-Steel Starship Will Look Like Returning to Earth
SpaceX has released an impressive new image that shows its proposed Starship reentering the atmosphere of Earth.
Maybe Self-Replicating Robot Probes are Destroying Each Other. That’s Why We Don’t See Them
A new study takes a look at the Fermi Paradox by considering the possibility that alien von Neumann probes could…