Space

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

Series| Just Might Work

Catching the most dangerous thing in space

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More than 8,000 tons of space debris orbit Earth, endangering our astronauts and satellites. Can we clean up space before it’s too late?

Jack Berning

Astronomy

Algorithm quickly simulates massive universes in high-res

A new algorithm lets astrophysicists produce high-res cosmological simulations of large parts of the universe far more quickly than was previously possible.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Why this scientist wants to grow fish on the moon

Researchers are finding out how to send fish eggs to the moon so that one day we will be able to farm fish on the lunar surface.

Teresa Carey

Aerospace

Starship nails landing for the first time

SpaceX’s fifth high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype ended with a successful landing — a first for the massive Mars-bound rocket.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

NASA plans to send probe deep into interstellar space

An in-development Interstellar Probe could explore an area 10 times farther away than any craft before it, providing an unprecedented look at interstellar space.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Smart shirt monitored astronauts’ health in space

A sensor-packed smart shirt has been used to monitor astronauts’ health in space, with promising results.

Kristin Houser

Outer Space

More than 5,000 tons of space dust hit Earth every year

We now know about how much space dust — micrometeorites that may have seeded Earth with the ingredients for life — hits the planet every year.

Kristin Houser

Is NASA ready for an asteroid impact?

NASA is staging a week-long asteroid impact simulation during which participants will need to respond to a hypothetical impact scenario.

Kristin Houser

Chinese Space Station is ready for launch — in pieces

Construction is finally beginning on the Chinese Space Station, with its core module — Tianhe — expected to lift off in April 2021.

Kristin Houser

Astronauts take historic ride in used Dragon capsule

Four astronauts are en route to the International Space Station via a recycled SpaceX rocket and Dragon capsule — a first in spaceflight.

Kristin Houser

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