The world’s oldest crystals show evidence of exposure to both fresh and salt water during their formation, a new study reports. This shows that the very early Earth had both oceans and land on which rainwater could collect. Although diabolical in many ways, it suggests a planet far more similar to the one we know … Read more
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 8-5 mission on June 4, 2024. The mission coincided with the 14th anniversary of the first Falcon 9 launch in 2010. Image: Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday night, 14 years to … Read more
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been seen in the skies over Texas SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Monday night. The launch was intended to send 23 Starlink satellites into orbit. Fox – 4 News Anyone up for dinner and a rocket launch? A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket … Read more
Larger / Hubble Space Telescope on Earth, photographed during STS-125, Shuttle Mission 4, May 2009. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when there are none left, the instrument will cease to perform meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has operated in space for nearly three and a half decades, … Read more
SpaceX’s upcoming Starship megarocket officially has a license to fly. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday (June 4) issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission, which is currently scheduled to lift off no earlier than Thursday, June 6, from the Starbase facility of the company near Boca Chica. … Read more
This article has been reviewed according to the editorial process and policies of Science X. The editors have emphasized the following attributes to ensure the credibility of the content: fact-checked trusted source correct OK! Credit: Public Domain Pixabay/CC0 x CLOSED Credit: Public Domain Pixabay/CC0 When talking about our universe, it is often said that “matter … Read more
The brilliant green, purple and red colors of the aurora borealis may be visible from northern parts of the upper Midwest tonight thanks to a solar flare crashing into Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SPWC) has issued a G1 geomagnetic storm watch for June 4 in anticipation of … Read more
A new NASA project lets Instagram users experience the wonders of the universe as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other space telescopes. It’s an augmented reality (AR) filter called the Instagram Experience that takes stunningly beautiful celestial bodies and places them right next to you on camera. This includes the debris of stars … Read more
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation after an incident during its first crewed flight in two years in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate. William Shatner for Jeff Bezos to the company The new Shepard rocket was launched on … Read more
This article has been reviewed according to the editorial process and policies of Science X. The editors have emphasized the following attributes to ensure the credibility of the content: fact-checked trusted source written by researchers correct OK! by Naman Kumar, Phys.org A description of a universe-antiuniverse pair. Credit: Wikipedia, CC x CLOSED A description of … Read more