At the fifth time of asking, SpaceX's latest Falcon 9 rocket finally took off on Friday, March 4. Delays had seen the launch pushed back for almost two weeks, but it successfully launched at 6.35 p.m. EST (11.35 p.m. GMT) on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Historically, the only way to get anything into orbit has been by rocket; a process that is massively expensive, cumbersome, and presents a slew of constraints.
Commander Scott Kelly has just returned from his 340-day mission aboard the ISS. The record breaking mission has seen Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko spend almost a year in space, and scientists hope to gain an insight into what long stays in microgravity do to the body, with views on missions to Mars in the future.
Gravitational waves sent out from a pair of colliding black holes have been converted to sound waves, as heard in this animation.
NASA's new series of bullet-shaped X-planes are the first step towards trying to resurrect the dream of supersonic air travel.
Earlier this month, the White House's Office of Science and Technology assembled a strange gathering: scientists, artists, engineers, and policy-makers, for a workshop designed to imagine how humanity could settle the solar system.
Using a computer simulation, astronomers probe the ‘cosmic web’ of the universe, its honeycomb-like structure on the largest scales.
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope are helping characterize the atmospheres of exotic planets, such as the exoplanet 55 Cancri e.
A spectacular image of the Milky Way has been released to mark the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL).
Scientists in the U.K. share a five-dimensional black hole simulation model that could ‘break’ the general relativity of Albert Einstein, the very foundation of modern physics.
Two years ago, Virgin Galactic's SpaceshipTwo, the space plane it hoped to use to send tourists into space, failed on a test flight and crashed in the desert. Now, it's revealed a brand new version of SpaceShipTwo.
Earth is home to 2,550 exotic minerals, some so scarce the world supply would fit inside a sugar cube. One of the Earth’s rarest minerals is Nevadaite, which has only been found in two places on the planet.
For some, the idea of realistically achieving the ability to travel through time is a thankless pipe dream. For others, each passing day is but another 24-hour block of dreaming about how to best alter history once the surely inevitable technology comes along to make time travel as easy as swiping a bus pass.
