The future of Boeing’s crewed spaceflight program is muddy after Starliner’s...
Enlarge / Boeing's uncrewed Starliner spaceraft backs away from the International Space Station moments after undocking on September 6, 2024.NASA Nearly a decade ago to the day, I stood in the international terminal of Houston's main airport checking my phone. As I waited to board a flight for Moscow, an announcement from NASA was imminent,…
Meet Jared Isaacman, the billionaire attempting the first private space walk...
SpaceX is in the midst of a mission to conduct the world's first private space walk — and it's being led by the billionaire Jared Isaacman.Isaacman and another crew member are testing SpaceX's new extravehicular space suits in the first-ever commercial space walk, set for Thursday. The suits are designed for increased mobility, and a mask…
Scientists spot ancient ‘smiley face’ on Mars — and it could...
Astronomers recently spotted a surprising "smiley face" beaming up from the surface of Mars as they surveyed the alien landscape as part of a new study. The emoticon-like structure, which is only visible under certain conditions, is the remnant of an ancient lake that dried up billions of years ago — and could be harboring…
The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope...
The rosy red structures of a nearby galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.The Andromeda Galaxy — the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor — is located about 2.5 million light-years away. Measuring approximately 152,000 light-years across, it has nearly the same mass as our Milky Way galaxy. A recent hubble…
SpaceX says regulators will keep Starship grounded until at least November
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of catch arms ensnaring SpaceX's Super Heavy booster. The Federal Aviation Administration has signaled to SpaceX that it won't approve a launch license for the next test flight of the Starship rocket until at least late November, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. This is more than two months…
NASA spacecraft captures 1st photo of its giant solar sail while...
On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about spacecraft propulsion. Then, on Aug. 29, the agency confirmed this sail successfully unfurled itself in outer space. Yet, we still didn't have official photographic evidence of…
What??? James Webb telescope finds giant question mark in space
Since ancient times, humans have looked to the stars for answers to life's biggest questions. Now, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a bizarre cosmic object that appears to be throwing a question of its own right back at us.Spotted by JWST's Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument, the object in…
Polaris Dawn’s spacewalk will be historic — and risky. Here’s everything...
On Thursday, four people currently orbiting Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship plan to don a set of brand-new spacesuits, open their spaceship's hatch to completely expose its interior to the vacuum of space, and attempt the first-ever commercial spacewalk.Their week-long mission, called Polaris Dawn, is fully private with no NASA involvement — but…
Astronaut watches a meteor explode over Earth in a bright green...
A new video from an astronaut's vantage point in space catures a bright green burst over Earth as a meteor exploded in the night sky.NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, commander of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, shared a new time-lapse of photos taken from the International Space Station as it passed over Cairo, Egypt. While aiming to…
Infamous ‘Wow! signal’ that hinted at aliens may actually be an...
One of astronomy's grandest riddles may have just gotten even more interesting, according to new research that suggests the source of a mysterious signal that some dubbed an "alien broadcast" may instead have been the result of a remarkably rare cosmic event.Now known as the "Wow! signal" after the incredulous expression scribbled by astronomer Jerry…
