Space
Aerospace
T-Minus: SpaceX’s military launch, a rocket family’s final flight, and more
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a new kind of military satellite, the solar eclipse, and more.
Kristin Houser
Aerospace
T-Minus: SpaceX’s first “Bandwagon” launch, NASA’s future moon vehicles, and more
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a new SpaceX service, a request for “moon time,” and more.
Kristin Houser
An artistic representation of a black hole with accretion disk and relativistic jets emitting from its poles.
Outer Space
Persistent “hiccups” in a far-off galaxy draw astronomers to new black hole behavior
Scientists have found a large black hole that “hiccups,” giving off plumes of gas, revealing another black hole.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
An image of Japan's SLIM spacecraft with the T-Minus logo on top
Aerospace
T-Minus: NASA cracks asteroid capsule, Japan joins exclusive moon club, and more
Kristin Houser
a collage featuring an image of Enceladus
Astronomy
Ice plumes could reveal signs of life on Europa and Enceladus
Sam Jarman
A rocket ready for liftoff with T-Minus logo over the image
Aerospace
T-Minus: NASA’s Artemis update, a rocket’s maiden flight, and more
Kristin Houser
A man in camouflage is standing in front of a table with a virtual globe displayed above its surface
Military
Space Force pays Microsoft $20 million for a space simulator
Kristin Houser
A purple and blue spiral depicting a black hole with the T-Minus logo over it
Astronomy
T-Minus: SpaceX’s direct-to-cell satellites, XRISM’s first images, and more
Kristin Houser
A collage of images of spacecraft and satellites.
Aerospace
The 21 most exciting space missions of 2024
Kristin Houser
an image of a spaceplane with the T-Minus logo on top of it
Aerospace
T-Minus: SpaceX’s spaceplane launch, Jupiter’s “pizza moon,” and more
Kristin Houser
An image of a blue object in a box.
Physics
Scientists rule out a popular alternative theory to dark matter
Don Lincoln
A psychedelic spiral with a pink ball in the middle.
Outer Space
“Singularities don’t exist,” claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr
Ethan Siegel
An orange cat is sitting on a couch with graphics over the image
Aerospace
NASA beams home cat video from 19 million miles away
Kristin Houser