SpaceX launched its third fleet of spy satellites in eight days on Sunday, marking its 10th mission this year in support of the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. agency that oversees satellite intelligence. A fleet of Starshield satellites, co-developed by…
Twenty-one bipedal robots took to the streets in China on Saturday to compete in the first humanoid half marathon of its kind, but technical glitches left them far behind. A video posted by the BBC shows several robots greeting spectators…
Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday by returning to Earth after seven months on the International Space Station, where he completed Expeditions 71 and 72. Pettit is the oldest active U.S. astronaut, having completed four space flights…
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner successfully completed their stay on the International Space Station and returned to Earth. The crew departed the ISS at 5:57 p.m. ET aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. It…
NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station on Saturday along with his two Russian cosmonaut colleagues. Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner are expected to land near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, via parachute at 9:20 p.m.…
Pop singer Katy Perry and TV presenter Gayle King launched into space on Monday, taking part in Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. The all-female crew lifted off at 9:30 a.m. ET in the New Shepard suborbital spacecraft, called NS-31,…
Monday’s Google Doodle is dedicated to World Quantum Day, which is celebrated on April 14. The animated artwork features a thaumatrope, or optical illusion, where the discs have different images on the front and back that, when rotated on separate…
The Circinus West molecular cloud is a huge star-forming region located 2,500 light-years from Earth. The gas and dust in this cloud are so dense that it is opaque. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA) A battle between light and dark is unfolding…
On Monday morning, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying more than two dozen Starlink satellites from the Space Force’s iconic Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket lifted off at 12:00 p.m. ET from Pad 40.…
These 30 “curse tablets” created for the dead illustrate the lengths to which the Athenians were willing to go to place a curse on their enemies. Jutta Stroschek/German Archaeological InstituteGreek curse tablet in the shape of a liver, found in…