Updated at 4:30 a.m. EDT (0830 GMT) July 4. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and the Intelsat 35e communications satellite at launch pad 39A during Monday’s final countdown. Credit: SpaceX For the second day running, computers automatically aborted a Falcon 9 launch countdown Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the final seconds before […]
A mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique just got a NASA promotion to the design phase. Called DART, the plan would see a refrigerator-sized spacecraft smash into a non-threatening asteroid, causing it to move ever so slightly from its original orbital path. The project is seen as an important first step in developing a […]
Image copyright SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Image caption The green-and-black poison dart frog is native to Central America and the north-west part of South America The huge diversity of frogs we see today is mainly a consequence of the asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs, a study suggests. A new analysis shows that frog populations […]
William Harwood Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2’s flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches. Based […]
Astronaut Jack Fischer caught some amazing pictures of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule leaving the International Space Station today (July 3), and shared the images on Twitter.
The first two pictures show the Dragon space capsule attached to the ISS’ robot arm, called Canadarm2, and the capsule moving away from the station. The […]
reader comments 20 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket almost made it off a Florida launch pad on Sunday evening—but with just nine seconds to go before liftoff the on-board computers detected an issue within the rocket’s guidance, navigation, and control system. The launch was scrubbed and now the attempt has moved to Monday evening, with the […]
A total solar eclipse as seen from Belitung, Indonesia, in March 2016. (Associated Press) In October 1976, a total solar eclipse engulfed southern Australia and the city of Melbourne in darkness. Roving eclipse seekers and local astronomy fans welcomed the shadow. Robin Hirst, an astronomy lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s State College, watched the eclipse from a […]
SpaceX is looking to extend its soaring flight rate with a third Falcon rocket launch in nine days, as the company works off a backlog of missions that piled up after an accident 10 months ago.
The company’s 39th Falcon 9 rocket is being prepared for liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center […]
Subaru Telescope images reveal weather in Jupiter’s atmosphere in the mid-infrared. Those images, taken multiple times over several months, support Juno spacecraft mission of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This article is part of a joint press release with ones from Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at California Institute of Technology and Gemini Observatory. […]
A photo from February shows a perspective view of the Mars north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark troughs forming a spiral-like pattern. The view is based on undated images taken by the ESA’s Mars Express and generated using elevation data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on board the Mars Global Surveyor mission […]