50 days after launch, Starliner crew has no landing date | Former astronaut Mark Kelly on shortlist for Harris' VP pick | Where and when to see the northern lights in 2024
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Starliner is rated to stay in space for up to 90 days as NASA and Boeing examine issues with helium propulsion and thrusters. The spacecraft will do a "hot fire" test in orbit soon, as NASA and the company continue to probe the cause of thruster failures and a helium leak in space.
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, is on Vice President Kamala Harris' shortlist to be her running mate as she pursues becoming the next president of the United States. It is the first time that someone who has flown into space has been on the ticket for the White House.
Nothing quite beats seeing the northern lights, or aurora borealis, in all their glory. But where and when can you see them? Lucky for us the next few years are going to be the best for seeing the northern lights due to heightened solar activity as we approach "solar maximum" in the current solar cycle.
China has test-fired a new engine for a planned rocket designed to take astronauts to the moon. The liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine, sometimes referred to as the YF-75E, was tested by the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the country's state-owned space contractor.
By combining a new image of a giant galaxy cluster with older X-ray data, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have demonstrated how the cluster's galaxies are suffused by huge amounts of gas that can reach scorching temperatures up to 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit).
NASA's Perseverance rover may have found signs of ancient life in a rock on Mars; the mission team's scientists are ecstatic, but remain cautious as further analysis is needed to confirm the discovery.
There are plenty of Star Wars comic book series, both large and small, to choose from in the post-Disney age of the franchise. With Marvel back at the helm since 2015, the galaxy far, far away has been thoroughly explored, with comics in several eras from across the Star Wars timeline. Now, Marvel's main Star Wars series is finally leaving original Star Wars movies behind and moving into the early days of the New Republic.
NASA, Boeing on next steps for Starliner astronaut mission | Artemis 2 rocket core stage arrives in Florida: Video | Celestron telescope & binocular deals 2024
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NASA and Boeing will provide an update about the Starliner capsule's ongoing astronaut mission today (July 25), and you can watch it live. We'll get the latest information during today's press conference today. You can watch the recap at Space.com, courtesy of NASA.
The core stage of Artemis 2's rocket came to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Tuesday (July 23). The rocket stage was offloaded from NASA's Pegasus barge, which shipped the rocket stage 900 miles (1,450 km) by water from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, in a seven-hour operation aided by remote controlled vehicles known as self-propelled modular transporters.
Celestron is one of the top names in the skywatching industry, known for the quality and reliability of its optics. With that in mind, it's no surprise that they make some of the best telescopes and best binoculars around and you can get several of the best telescope deals and binoculars deals on their products too.
China's Shenzhou 18 mission staged an emergency drill recently to boost preparedness aboard the country's space station. Shenzhou 18 commander Ye Guangfu and crewmates Li Cong and Li Guangsu conducted the drill in mid-July to practice procedures for the case of a decompression event aboard the Tiangong space station.
"Why do we go to space?" asked NASA administrator Bill Nelson to a small crowd at NASA headquarters last week. "We go to explore the heavens, but we also go to improve life here on Earth, and that includes attacking this dreaded disease that we know is cancer."
It's eerily quiet on the spaceflight front. In the past two weeks, there has been just a single orbital launch -- that of a Chinese Long March 4B rocket, which lofted the Gaofen-11 05 Earth-observation satellite on July 18. The lull stems chiefly from the temporary grounding of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which suffered an anomaly on July 11 that led to the loss of its payload, 20 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites.
The eyes, the old saying goes, are the window to the soul — but when it comes to deepfake images, they might be a window into unreality. That's according to new research conducted at the University of Hull in the U.K., which applied techniques typically used in observing distant galaxies to determine whether images of human faces were real or not.
If you're currently in the mood to get back into the iconic sci-fi series before it arrives, you'll want to read our in-depth examination of the Xenomorphs' many life stages and forms as seen in the movies.
"Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures" returns for its second highly-anticipated season on Disney+ and Disney Jr. on Aug. 14, 2024, and we've got a rowdy new trailer to unwrap.
