Coverage, Briefing Set for NASA’s Artemis II Moon Rocket Roll to Pad
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is seen inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building as teams await the arrival of Artemis II crewmembers to board their Orion…
James Webb Space Telescope’s mysterious ‘little red dots’ may be black holes in disguise
“If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe.”
CAS Space conducts first suborbital launch and capsule landing test
Chinese commercial firm CAS Space launched its first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and recovery test mission, seeing a successful parachute descent of the capsule. The post CAS Space conducts first suborbital…
Massive supernova explosion may have created a binary black hole
“Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries.”
Two New Exoplanets And The Need For New Habitable Zone Definitions
How solid is our understanding of exoplanet habitability? Are the ideas of an Optimistic Habitable Zone and a Conservative Habitable Zone sufficient to advance our understanding? New research introduces an…
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’: Robert Picardo and Gina Yashere on embracing the legacy of their roles in latest Trek show (interview)
“It’s hopeful about the future, and we need that optimistic enthusiasm right now.”
New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Area
NASA The New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which spans 23 counties across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and has a population of about 19.9 million, is pictured at…
ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission moves up launch
A delay in one European Space Agency mission is creating an opportunity for an earlier, and more capable, launch for another ESA spacecraft. The post ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission moves…
Starlink satellites lift off on SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.
Taiwan’s Moonshot: why ‘T-Dome’ needs systems engineering, not just a shopping list
When President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress in May 1961 and declared that the United States would land a man on the moon before the decade’s end, his purpose…