Zoom in / A Falcon 9 rocket soars in the sky above Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission Sunday night to deploy 22 more Starlink Internet satellites. The late night liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with another batch of Starlink Internet satellites on Sunday set a new record for the most flights by a … Read more
Zoom in / Spectral analysis indicates that silica is present in this supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ O. Krause (Steward Observatory) Since neutron stars were discovered, researchers have used their unusual properties to probe our universe. The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack more mass than the Sun into a ball about the … Read more
Zoom in / Varda Space’s first ‘Winnebago’ spacecraft, called W-Series 1, ahead of its launch on June 12. The co-founder of California startup Varda Space Industries says his company’s first space mission, a miniature laboratory that grew crystals of the drug ritonavir in orbit, is on track to wrap up in the coming weeks with … Read more
Zoom in / Artist’s concept of a fuel depot in space. Imagine you bought a vehicle that was supposed to last eight years on a single tank of gas. You’d probably avoid hard accelerations, keep an eye on the fuel gauge, and not leave the driveway unless it was a vitally important trip. That was … Read more
Zoom in / Taranjit Sandhu, Indian ambassador to the United States, signs the Artemis Accords in Washington on June 21. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson watches from across the table. When the Indian ambassador to the United States joined his country in the Artemis Accords last month, he signaled that the world’s most populous country, with … Read more
