Space

T-Minus: $11B Mars rocks, Voyager 1’s resurrection, and more

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring NASA’s Mars rock request, the Dragonfly mission, and more.

Kristin Houser

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

A distant exoplanet made itself a second atmosphere

A distant exoplanet, GJ 1132 b, appears to have created a second atmosphere for itself after being stripped of its first.

Kristin Houser

New underwater telescope could explain birth of the universe

The world’s second-largest neutrino detector is now observing “ghost particles” from below the ice of Siberia’s Lake Baikal.

Kristin Houser

Solar panels in space could beam continuous energy back to earth

Capturing the sun's boundless light in space could revolutionize how we distribute energy around the world.

Amanda Winkler

Aerospace

Russia and China plan to put humans on lunar space station

Russia and China have agreed to collaborate on a lunar space station where humans might one day live and work.

Kristin Houser

Transportation

SpaceX targets moving vehicles with Starlink satellite internet

SpaceX has asked the FCC for permission to attach terminals for its Starlink satellite internet to larger vehicles, such as trucks, airplanes, and boats.

Kristin Houser

Astronomy

Space hurricane rains electrons down on North Pole

A space hurricane formed above the North Pole in 2014, marking the first discovery of the theorized — but never proven — extreme space weather event.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

SpaceX Starship SN10 lands successfully — then blows up

SpaceX Starship SN10 successfully landed after a high-altitude test launch — a first for one of the massive rockets — but it blew up a few minutes later.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Solar probe snaps surprising photo of the surface of Venus

The Parker Solar Probe has taken an image of the surface of Venus that may change what we thought we knew about the planet — or possibly the probe itself.

Kristin Houser

Astronomy

See 25,000 supermassive black holes in one map of the sky

Astronomers used supercomputers and an international network of antennas to create a map of 25,000 supermassive black holes.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Cancer survivor joins first all-citizen private spaceflight

The crew aboard the first all-citizen private spaceflight, Inspiration4, includes a billionaire, a childhood cancer survivor, and maybe you.

Kristin Houser

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