Update, Oct. 26 — On Saturday, NASA said the astronaut who experienced a “medical issue” has been released from the hospital after an overnight stay and has now returned to Houston. “The crew member is in good health and will resume normal post-flight reconditioning with other crew members,” the space …
Read More »Space: The Final Fashion Frontier
In its quest to shape the aesthetics of everything, the fashion world has extended its glossy, well-decorated tentacles into all sorts of unexpected areas: sports, film, hotels, furniture, publishing. And, as of Wednesday, space. The cosmos is not just the final frontier, apparently. It’s the final fashion frontier. Or so …
Read More »NASA Launches Europa Clipper to Explore an Ocean Moon’s Habitability
Europa Clipper, the biggest interplanetary spacecraft that NASA has ever built, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Monday afternoon. The mission will tackle one of biology’s core questions: Can life exist anywhere else in our solar system? The spacecraft’s destination is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, …
Read More »SpaceX Advances Starship Program With a Launch and a Catch
SpaceX pulled off a feat of technical wizardry on Sunday, not only flying a 233-foot rocket booster back to its launch site, but also catching it out of the air with two giant mechanical arms. It occurred during the fifth test flight of the Starship rocket and was a huge …
Read More »Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Moves Like the Solar System’s Biggest Kickball
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is one of the solar system’s most astonishing marvels. An elliptical storm with inky swirls of burnt orange and dulled copper, it is longer than the Earth is wide, and its winds screech through the tops of the planet’s clouds at 400 miles per …
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