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
supermassive black hole
Astronomy
Light from behind supermassive black hole detected for first time
Kristin Houser
washing machine for space
Aerospace
NASA interns designed a washing machine for astronauts
Kristin Houser
alien technology
Outer Space
Harvard astrophysicist will lead hunt for alien technology
Kristin Houser
moon formation
Astronomy
Baby exoplanet appears to be forming a moon
Kristin Houser
balloon-borne telescope
Aerospace
NASA’s new balloon-borne telescope is ready for liftoff
Kristin Houser
moon of Jupiter
Astronomy
Amateur astronomer discovers new moon of Jupiter
Kristin Houser
Blue Origin flight
Aerospace
Historic Blue Origin flight included four people — but no pilot
Kristin Houser
Outer Space
Say cheese: Life on these exoplanets may be watching us
Teresa Carey
people in space
Aerospace
Virgin flight shatters record for number of people in space at once
Kristin Houser
Space Tourists
Aerospace
Virgin Galactic gets greenlight to fly space tourists
Kristin Houser