SpaceX tests upcoming Starfall reentry vehicle with demonstration mission on Tuesday

Despite how many caught the news of Artemis II, only a fraction engaged with it. According to one poll, an estimated 20% of U.S. adults actively followed the Artemis mission, as opposed to passively seeing updates. Just as someone might know that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged — end of story — someone might…

Back to Article List Visible in the early-morning sky before dawn grows too bright, Neptune glows near a grouping of background stars in Pisces. This chart shows the location of Neptune on June 30. Use 44 Piscium to guide you southwest toward a grouping of several background stars that stand just east of the ice…

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent July 2, 2026 3:45 p.m. The 3D printed board based on scans of the original game board discovered in Vindolanda Newcastle University Researchers in England, equipped with a 3D printer, created a playable…

Ray Jayawardhana begins his tenure today as the 10th president of the California Institute of Technology. His selection as Caltech’s president, and as the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of astronomy, was announced Jan. 6. Jayawardhana succeeds Thomas Rosenbaum, who had served as Caltech’s president since 2014. Founded in 1891, Caltech manages…

The past 250 years of optical telescopes have seen revolutionary discoveries and technology that the telescope’s inventor, a seventeenth century spectacle-maker by the name of Hans Lippershey, maybe wouldn’t have believed possible. When we look back through the annals of telescope history, we find that a significant turning point came, coincidentally, just five years after…

We know dark matter is out there. It’s just a placeholder term for something we don’t understand, some ghostly mass that explains how galaxies rotate so quickly without flying apart. Fritz Zwicky coined the term ‘Dark Matter’ based largely on his observations of galaxies in the Coma Cluster. Zwicky found that the galaxies were moving…