Launch Preview: Pegasus XL to launch amongst Falcon 9 and Chinese missions
We’ve come a long way since the days when interstellar space – and even the environment of our own planetary system – was considered empty. Dust and gas between the stars factor into deep space thinking in many ways given their potential uses and dangers, from hydrogen clouds serving as fuel for a Bussard-style ramjet…
NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30), and you can watch the action live. Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will perform a roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today, starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT). You can…
In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Kymeta’s Ryan Stevenson. They discuss the benefits and challenges of multi-orbit and multi-band connectivity in a single terminal. About Space Minds Space Minds is a new audio and video podcast from SpaceNews that focuses on the inspiring leaders, technologies and exciting opportunities in space. The…
For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Quantum mechanics governs the world of particles and fields. Both work brilliantly in their own domains. But put them together and contradictions appear – especially when it comes to black…
Climate change is actually nothing new to our old planet. It has long driven the evolution of Earth’s flora and fauna and good thing, too: Without those major shifts, we wouldn’t be here today. But as human-driven climate change accelerates, looking back at how ecosystems once responded to drastic climate swings could help prepare us…
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch a crewed capsule into orbit and then on a mission around the Moon. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA is once again shooting for the Moon, for the first time since the 1970s. As soon as April 1, 2026, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, using the Space Launch…