United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch another batch of Amazon’s internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (July 2), and you can watch it live. An Atlas V rocket carrying 29 Amazon Leo spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, during a 29-minute window that opens at…
MAÇÃO, PORTUGAL—Prehistoric human DNA has been detected on cave walls by an international team of scientists, according to a report in The Portugal News. Sara Garcês of the Institute of Earth and Memory and the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar said that more than 50 samples were taken from 24 rock art panels in 11 caves…
Researchers from the University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have turned to machine learning to take a fresh look at one of astrophysics’ most debated mysteries. Their focus was the Galactic Center Excess (GCE), a faint, roughly spherical glow of gamma rays surrounding the center of the Milky Way. For more than a…
Three NASA astronauts and one from the European Space Agency are the crew of the next Artemis mission, Artemis III. Instead of flying around the Moon like their predecessors, this crew will travel only as far as low Earth orbit. Their assignment is conducting critical rendezvous and docking tests with pathfinder versions of the Human…
Searching for habitable worlds beyond our solar system consists of more than just having it orbit within its star’s habitable zone, which is the region where temperatures could be just right for liquid water to exist on the surface. On Earth, where water comprises approximately 75 percent of the planet’s surface, life is absurdly abundant….
Three new contracts are going to companies that will be building a series of lunar landers. From left to right: Astrobotic’s Griffin lander, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C, and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost. Astrobotic / Firefly / Intuitive Machines On June 30th, NASA announced additional details about its new plans for the Moon. The agency announced new…
Since 2008, rules requiring ships to slow down to avoid collisions with North Atlantic right whales have reduced fatalities of the critically endangered animals. Now, NOAA is calling the regulations into question, raising concerns for the mammals’ future Olivia Ferrari | Correspondent June 26, 2026 A North Atlantic right whale swims with dolphins around its…
SpaceX tests upcoming Starfall reentry vehicle with demonstration mission on Tuesday – NASASpaceFlight.com We use cookies to ensure that we give you the…
The Planetary Society’s Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) Grants provide funding to innovation projects that advance space science and exploration. The 2023 round of STEP Grants awarded $50,000 USD to a team led by Dr. Andrew Palmer of the Florida Institute of Technology to study deep-space agriculture to address the challenge of…
Because I’ve been talking about enormous structures lately and describing them as ‘big dumb objects,’ I thought it would be fun to revisit the origin of that term. BDOs emerged in what was intended as an April Fool’s joke by writer and critic Peter Nicholls, famed as editor (with John Clute) of The Encyclopedia of…