A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (April 17) at 5:26 p.m. EDT (2126 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch as planned. It landed vertically on SpaceX‘s Just Read the Instructions …
SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink Satellites From Florida. Read More »
The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in …
Ingenuity Team Says Goodbye To Pioneering Mars Helicopter. Read More »
Like Tom Cruise’s “Maverick” character in “Top Gun,” Boom Supersonic is feeling the need for speed. The Colorado company has received a first-of-its-kind approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to exceed Mach 1 during test flights of its XB-1 supersonic jet. These flights are slated to occur sometime this year within the Black …
Boom’s XB-1 Test Plane Gets FAA Green Light For Supersonic Flight. Read More »
Less than 2,000 light-years away from Earth, scientists have discovered a “sleeping giant”—the Milky Way’s largest stellar black hole, with a mass 33 times greater than that of our sun. Though the black hole, named Gaia BH3, is the second-closest known to our home planet, it is “dormant” and had therefore gone undetected. “It’s a …
Astronomers have long believed that the ice giants Uranus and Neptune are rich in frozen water. However, a new study suggests they may also have tons of methane ice. The findings could help solve a puzzle about how these icy worlds formed. Much about Uranus and Neptune remains unknown. These ice giant worlds have had …
Uranus and Neptune Aren’t Made Of What We Thought, New Study Hints. Read More »
A fresh analysis of a remarkably massive yet compact galaxy from the early universe suggests that dark matter interacts with itself. The galaxy, JWST-ER1, which formed just 3.4 billion years after the Big Bang, was first spotted last October in images snapped by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). At over 17 billion light-years from …
Exotic ‘Einstein Ring’ Suggests That Mysterious Dark Matter Interacts With Itself. Read More »
Boeing’s first Starliner spacecraft for astronauts made a short road trip today (April 16) ahead of its expected launch in early May. Starliner rolled out on a trailer towards its United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket around 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) in preparation for its International Space Station (ISS) mission no earlier than …
Boeing Starliner Spacecraft Rolls Out To Atlas V Rocket Ahead Of 1st Astronaut Launch. Read More »
