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Iconic Arecibo Observatory may be on the brink of collapse after cable failures

No one was expecting the snap on Nov. 6 as engineers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico weighed their options for dealing with damage to the facility from a cable failure over the summer. Advertisement. But just as engineers were ready to begin ...

Crew Dragon docking gives space station its first long-term crew of seven

SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft glided to a smooth automated docking Monday night at the International Space Station, delivering four astronauts to join the three-person crew already on-board, boosting the size of the lab's long-duration crew to ...

Victor Glover becomes 1st Black astronaut to arrive at space station for long-term stay

Victor Glover just made history. Early Tuesday morning (Nov. 17), the 44-year-old NASA astronaut came aboard the International Space Station, becoming the first African American ever to begin a full six-month stint on the orbiting lab. Glover and three ...

New game 'Mars Horizon' shows the real challenges of running a space agency

A typical person watching a space agency may see a vast organization working on dozens of missions at a time, without really knowing the individual steps behind each launch. That's where the new space strategy game 'Mars Horizon,' which launches today ...

Arianespace traces cause of Vega launch failure to 'human error'

Inverted cables on the Vega rocket's upper stage control system apparently caused the launcher to tumble minutes after liftoff Monday night, a failure that resulted in the loss of a Spanish Earth observation satellite and a French research probe, Arianespace ...

First operational Crew Dragon spacecraft docks to ISS

SpaceFlight Insider

SpaceFlight Insider

SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Resilience" and its four-person astronaut occupants arrived at the International Space Station a day after an evening launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Following a 27-hour orbital cruise, the Crew-1 spacecraft with NASA ...

Gravitational lenses could hold the key to better estimates of the expansion of the universe

The universe is expanding but astrophysicists aren't sure exactly how fast that expansion is happening—not because there aren't answers, but rather because the answers they could give don't agree. Now, Simon Birrer, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford ...

Greenland's glaciers could lose more ice than previously thought, raising concerns for sea level rise

CNN

CNN

(CNN) Greenland's largest glaciers could lose even more ice than previously predicted -- a development that could have huge consequences for the rate of global sea level rise, according to a new study published Tuesday. Greenland's ice sheet is already ...

Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of self-powered sensors

Shantanu Chakrabartty's laboratory has been working to create sensors that can run on the least amount of energy. His lab has been so successful at building smaller and more efficient sensors, that they've run into a roadblock in the form of a fundamental ...

Physicists discover the 'Kings and Queens of Quantumness'

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

Is that light particle more like a ball careening through space, or more of a smeary mess that is everywhere at once? The answer depends on whether the absurd laws of subatomic particles or the deterministic equations that govern larger objects hold more ...