WASHINGTON — Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket’s third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an “off-nominal” orbit and dealing the
WASHINGTON — Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket’s third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an “off-nominal” orbit and dealing the
A new study from researchers in Japan suggests that a better way to search for alien life might be to look for suspiciously similar planets that are close to each
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe: the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. Because its passage through massive galaxy clusters
WASHINGTON — Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C.-based space technology startup, has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round to advance navigation software designed to operate without GPS,
Artist’s depiction of a supermassive black hole tearing apart a star. Roughly half of the stellar debris gets flung back into space while the remainder forms a glowing accretion disk
Ever dreamt of being present during the birth of the first galaxies? Perhaps being able to fast-forward through billions of years of cosmic evolution to watch those galaxies grow and
A law enforcement veteran of nearly 30 years said she’s taken a “pragmatic and practical look” at each case and doesn’t see any connection.
Cherenkov radiation isn’t just a beautiful phenomenon. It turns up in nuclear reactors, in the upper atmosphere, in gamma ray telescopes on three continents, in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on the eve of its launch with the BlueBird 7 satellite. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now.
Location of LECP on Interstellar Spacecraft Voyager 1 On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager






