The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe.We see its light every day. For ...
Three rapid bursts of charged particles that erupted toward Earth from the sun’s burning-hot outer atmosphere on Wednesday could lead to stunning auroras ...
“It fits in with the general narrative of Boeing having lost its way,” says McDowell.Starliner, like Crew Dragon, is a capsule-shaped spacecraft like the ...
You can create a graph with the angle as the x-axis and the speed as the y-axis. But since traveling 360 degrees brings you back to the start, you can sew ...
Throughout the five months of troubleshooting, Voyager's ground team continued to receive signals indicating the spacecraft was still alive. But until ...
NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last month was part of a battery pack released from the International Space Station.This ...
The Victus Haze mission is more complicated than Victus Nox, involving two prime contractors, two spacecraft, and two rocket launches from different ...
Elon Musk has been talking publicly about his sweeping vision for Mars settlement for nearly eight years now, dating to a speech in Guadalajara, Mexico, in ...
In other anecdotes, onlookers have reported birds that stop singing, crickets that stopped chirping, or bees that return to their hive, reduce their ...
A few weeks ago, something from the heavens came crashing through the roof of Alejandro Otero’s home, and NASA is on the case.In all likelihood, this nearly ...