SpaceX fires up Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship’s 10th test flight (video)
SpaceX conducted a static-fire test with one of its Super Heavy boosters today (June 6), part of the prep work for the next test flight of the Starship megarocket.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 164 — Goodbye NASA?
On Episode 164 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss these concerning times for NASA with Casey Dreier, the Chief of Space Policy for The Planetary…
It’s been nearly a century since Chicago saw a powerful dust storm like this (photos)
A historic dust storm hit Chicago last month, and a weather satellite gave us a bird’s-eye view of the dramatic event.
Sols 4561-4562: Prepping to Drill at Altadena
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Searching for Ancient Rocks in the ‘Forlandet’ Flats
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NASA’s ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn
A NASA Mars smallsat mission bumped from the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn is tentatively set to fly on the second New Glenn later this summer. The post…
Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award
Dr. Natasha Schatzman Receives Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Award The Forum 81 award was presented to Natasha Schatzman (center), with the award given by the parents of Alex Stoll, Mark…
Saving Gateway, SLS and Orion? Sen. Ted Cruz proposes $10 billion more for NASA’s moon and Mars efforts
Sen. Ted Cruz’s newly unveiled legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill would dedicate almost $10 billion to win the new space race with China.
Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the…
We Can Use Black Holes Particle Accelerators
The Large Hadron Collider has changed particle physics, and now scientists are dreaming up even bigger supercolliders. But humanity can’t match the raw particle-colliding power of a supermassive black hole.…