Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .isn't "dead" after all. Newly discovered ridges on the moon's surface are leading scientists to think that the moon might have an active tectonic system. Using data from NASA's (LRO), researchers have discovered a number of ridges with exposed bedrock, free of, or powdery lunar "soil," spread across the moon's nearside surface. These ridges, speckled with boulders, could be evidence that, not too long ago, tectonic activity broke apart the moon's surface. While...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .isn't "dead" after all. Newly discovered ridges on the moon's surface are leading scientists to think that the moon might have an active tectonic system. Using data from NASA's (LRO), researchers have discovered a number of ridges with exposed bedrock, free of, or powdery lunar "soil," spread across the moon's nearside surface. These ridges, speckled with boulders, could be evidence that, not too long ago, tectonic activity broke apart the moon's surface. While...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Update for 12:18 am ET: Blue Origin has scrubbed Thursday's launch attempt of the NS-13 New Shepard launch due to a payload power supply issue. A new launch date will be announced once available.Original story below: reusable New Shepard spacecraft will take to the skies this week for the first time in nine months. , which is designed to ferry people and payloads to suborbital space and back, will launch on an uncrewed test flight today (Sept. 24) at 11a.m. EDT (1500...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Update for 12:18 am ET: Blue Origin has scrubbed Thursday's launch attempt of the NS-13 New Shepard launch due to a payload power supply issue. A new launch date will be announced once available.Original story below: reusable New Shepard spacecraft will take to the skies this week for the first time in nine months. , which is designed to ferry people and payloads to suborbital space and back, will launch on an uncrewed test flight today (Sept. 24) at 11a.m. EDT (1500...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The quantum world is a pretty wild one, where the seemingly impossible happens all the time: Teensy objects separated by miles are tied to one another, and particles can even be in two places at once. But one of the most perplexing quantum superpowers is the movement of particles through seemingly impenetrable barriers.Now, a team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of this bizarre phenomenon, called quantum tunneling. And they figured out how...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The quantum world is a pretty wild one, where the seemingly impossible happens all the time: Teensy objects separated by miles are tied to one another, and particles can even be in two places at once. But one of the most perplexing quantum superpowers is the movement of particles through seemingly impenetrable barriers.Now, a team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of this bizarre phenomenon, called quantum tunneling. And they figured out how...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private spaceflight company will launch 58 new to join its ever-growing broadband internet megaconstellation in orbit Saturday (June 13), and you can watch it live online.A SpaceX will launch the Starlink mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for no earlier than 5:21 a.m. EDT (0921 GMT). You can and on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of SpaceX, beginning about 15 minutes...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private spaceflight company will launch 58 new to join its ever-growing broadband internet megaconstellation in orbit Saturday (June 13), and you can watch it live online.A SpaceX will launch the Starlink mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for no earlier than 5:21 a.m. EDT (0921 GMT). You can and on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of SpaceX, beginning about 15 minutes...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The first-ever all-female 45th Weather Squadron will be watching the weather for SpaceX's . This history-making team of six women — three military and three civilian launch weather officers — will be performing weather assessments and providing forecasts and advisory for the launch. The team, which is part of the and operates out of Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, will be making the go/no-go call for liftoff, depending on whether the weather is acceptable...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The first-ever all-female 45th Weather Squadron will be watching the weather for SpaceX's . This history-making team of six women — three military and three civilian launch weather officers — will be performing weather assessments and providing forecasts and advisory for the launch. The team, which is part of the and operates out of Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, will be making the go/no-go call for liftoff, depending on whether the weather is acceptable...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .SpaceX's next batch of will get off the ground a day earlier than we'd thought.The next 60 Starlink craft will launch Wednesday afternoon (April 22) (April 23), SpaceX representatives announced today (April 20)."With a more favorable weather forecast for launch and landing, now targeting Wednesday, April 22 at 3:37 p.m. EDT [1937 GMT] for this week’s Falcon 9 Starlink mission," the company said via Twitter this afternoon.As that tweet notes, will attempt to land the first...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .SpaceX's next batch of will get off the ground a day earlier than we'd thought.The next 60 Starlink craft will launch Wednesday afternoon (April 22) (April 23), SpaceX representatives announced today (April 20)."With a more favorable weather forecast for launch and landing, now targeting Wednesday, April 22 at 3:37 p.m. EDT [1937 GMT] for this week’s Falcon 9 Starlink mission," the company said via Twitter this afternoon.As that tweet notes, will attempt to land the first...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .NASA is poised to make history next month.The is scheduled to pull off NASA's first-ever asteroid-sampling operation on Oct. 20, snagging precious dirt and gravel from a 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) space rock called Bennu. "I can't tell you how excited I am," OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, of the University of Arizona, said during a news conference on Thursday (Sept. 24). "I'm confident that we're up to the challenge that's ahead of us."Related:...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .NASA is poised to make history next month.The is scheduled to pull off NASA's first-ever asteroid-sampling operation on Oct. 20, snagging precious dirt and gravel from a 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) space rock called Bennu. "I can't tell you how excited I am," OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, of the University of Arizona, said during a news conference on Thursday (Sept. 24). "I'm confident that we're up to the challenge that's ahead of us."Related:...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A little foam-spewing spacecraft could make a big dent in the space-junk problem in the coming years.The Russian startup StartRocket is developing a "Foam Debris Catcher," a small, autonomous satellite that would snag and de-orbit using sticky polymer foam."It's like a spider web," StartRocket founder Vlad Sitnikov told Space.com.Related:Earth orbit is cluttered with about 129 million pieces of debris, 34,000 of which are at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide, . These...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .A little foam-spewing spacecraft could make a big dent in the space-junk problem in the coming years.The Russian startup StartRocket is developing a "Foam Debris Catcher," a small, autonomous satellite that would snag and de-orbit using sticky polymer foam."It's like a spider web," StartRocket founder Vlad Sitnikov told Space.com.Related:Earth orbit is cluttered with about 129 million pieces of debris, 34,000 of which are at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide, . These...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .When (June 13), it delivered 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet SkySats into orbit. The mission was a success. It also looked amazing. That's because launched the rocket at 5:21 a.m. EDT (0921 GMT), just over an hour before sunrise, from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. As the rocket climbed into the predawn sky, its exhaust plume was illuminated by sunlight, creating a dazzling view.Some observers even reported seeing as...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .When (June 13), it delivered 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet SkySats into orbit. The mission was a success. It also looked amazing. That's because launched the rocket at 5:21 a.m. EDT (0921 GMT), just over an hour before sunrise, from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. As the rocket climbed into the predawn sky, its exhaust plume was illuminated by sunlight, creating a dazzling view.Some observers even reported seeing as...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .While greenhouse gas as the world locked down in response to the pandemic, such dips will do "nothing" to slow climate change unless society moves away from fossil fuels, researchers have found. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, a pandemic, which it remains today. To slow the spread of the virus, countries around the world began implementing lockdown measures that limited travel and closed down factories...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .While greenhouse gas as the world locked down in response to the pandemic, such dips will do "nothing" to slow climate change unless society moves away from fossil fuels, researchers have found. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, a pandemic, which it remains today. To slow the spread of the virus, countries around the world began implementing lockdown measures that limited travel and closed down factories...WW…