Starship’s Latest Test Reveals New Problems for SpaceX to Solve
Unlike in recent tests, SpaceX’s ninth Starship survived launch, but a fuel tank leak meant it lost control before it could complete its objectives.
A New Study Reveals the Makeup of Uranus’s Atmosphere
Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s most mysterious planets.
The Milky Way Has a Mysterious ‘Broken Bone’
Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New analysis suggests collision with a neutron star may have caused it.
New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station
On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.
SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures
The next Starship launch may come as soon as next week. A test of its Raptor engines suggests SpaceX has resolved the issues that plagued its recent flights.
The Future of Manufacturing Might Be in Space
Products made in space—and used on Earth—could be a reality in the coming years.
Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling itself into it.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars
A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red Planet.
Scientists Are Mapping the Bizarre, Chaotic Spacetime Inside Black Holes
By understanding the churning region near singularities, physicists hope they might be able to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.
Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential biosignature of marine microorganisms.