SpaceX is looking to complete its second launch within 24 hours with the flight of the Starlink 6-76 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket is expected to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 10:05 p.m. EST (0305 UTC on Nov. 27). The rocket will fly in…

It should have been a routine mission to ferry about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station, but when Russian cosmonauts opened the hatch to a cargo spacecraft on Saturday, they got a surprise—a toxic smell. "After opening the Progress spacecraft's hatch, the Roscosmos cosmonauts noticed an unexpected odor…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a "mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday, overcome by the stronger tug of the sun's gravity. But it will zip closer for a quick visit in January. NASA will…

NASA, along with its industry and international partners, is preparing for sustained exploration of the lunar surface with the Artemis campaign to advance science and discovery for the benefit of all. As part of that effort, NASA intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will…

Auroras are one of the most dazzling shows in the night sky, but to see them, you have to be in the right place at the right time. Our aurora forecast live blog tells you everything you need to know about upcoming geomagnetic activity and the likelihood of seeing the northern lights depending on your…

Thanks to TikTok and Instagram, we get a front-row seat to the lives of athletes—learning about how they care for their bodies in their day-to-day lives. Food included. While a snapshot of their plate may somewhat resemble your dinner, athletes' eating patterns are quite different. And they 100% should be. Athletes constantly push their bodies…

Leading members of a high-profile industry initiative aiming to “end plastic waste” have produced over 1,000 times more plastic than the scheme has cleaned up, according to an Unearthed investigation. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste was launched in 2019 by a major oil and chemical trade group, pledging to invest…

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called plasma. The images could provide heliophysicists with new clues to help unlock the secrets of the sun like never before. The images, taken…

General relativity has passed one of its most precise tests ever thanks to observations of the past 11 billion years of cosmic evolution collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI. Albert Einstein's 1915 theory, general relativity, has remained humanity's best description of gravity for the past 100 years. Cosmologists have used general relativity to model how the…

R esearchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, have developed an intriguing computer model to understand how light and matter interact. As tasks go, it is exceptionally hard, but the team was able to develop a strategy to simplify the problem. In doing so, they were also able to create something peculiar: an image representing…