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With the downtime between Flight 8 and Flight 9, SpaceX is continuing to build Orbital Launch Pad B and has started the demolition of High Bay. Pad B is SpaceX’s next-generation Orbital Launch Pad, while the demolition of High Bay…

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With the downtime between Flight 8 and Flight 9, SpaceX is continuing to build Orbital Launch Pad B and has started the demolition of High Bay. Pad B is SpaceX’s next-generation Orbital Launch Pad, while the demolition of High Bay…

After 25 years of smashing gold nuclei together at light speeds, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is hanging up its boots—erm, superconducting magnets.
The…

More than half a year after an empty Starliner spacecraft safely landed in a New Mexico desert, NASA and Boeing still have not decided whether the vehicle’s next flight will carry any…

The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region.
The intense solar flare originated from sunspot region AR4046 and was accompanied by a spectacular filament eruption and

Zena Cardman didn’t have to wait too long to get a seat on another spacecraft after being removed from SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission last year.
The NASA astronaut is one of the four members of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station…

A new study, published in BMC Biology, discovered prehistoric wasp preserved in amber is turning heads in the world of entomology with a rear end straight out of a science fiction movie. With a bizarre Venus flytrap-shaped abdomen, this ancient…

For centuries, sharks have stirred fear and fascination. They glide through water with quiet power. Unlike whales or dolphins, they never seem to speak. Scientists assumed that sharks lived in a world of silence – masters of stealth with no…

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