Far beyond our solar system, in the distant Pegasus constellation, lies a star system that is reshaping our understanding of planetary formation. HR 8799, located 129 light-years away, is home to a rare group of super-Jupiters, gas giants that are much larger than our own Jupiter. These planets, orbiting far from their star, present a
A cluster of fossilized dinosaur eggs discovered nearly five decades ago has revealed new secrets after being scanned with a stadium-sized particle accelerator. The high-resolution imaging allowed researchers to reconstruct the skulls of embryos preserved inside the eggs for 200 million years. The fossils were first uncovered in 1976 in South Africa’s Golden Gate Highlands
The first astronaut mission of Boeing’s Starliner taxi was a bumpier ride than NASA wanted to admit at the time. The agency announced today (Feb. 19) that it has reclassified Starliner‘s Crew Flight Test (CFT) as a “Type A mishap” — the most serious kind, in the same category as the space shuttle Challenger and
SpaceX will land a rocket in The Bahamas for the second time ever today (Feb. 19), and you can watch the action live. A rocket topped with 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today, during a four-hour window that opens at 5 p.m. EST
At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI — were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital data centers. Musk’s reputation might suggest otherwise, but according to experts, such a plan isn’t a complete fantasy. However, if
Still, after astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams eventually docked at the station, Boeing officials declared success. “We accomplished a lot, and really more than expected,” said Mark Nappi, vice president and manager of Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program, during a post-docking news conference. “We just had an outstanding day.” Over the subsequent weeks of the
Baby chickens appear to react similarly to humans when tested for something called the “bouba-kiki effect,” which links certain sounds to certain shapes. Elena Goncharova/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Elena Goncharova/Getty Images When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called “kiki” and which one
NASA Warns: Thousands of City-Killing Asteroids Untracked, Earth Vulnerable In a stark and widely reported warning, NASA’s planetary defence chief has revealed that Earth currently has no reliable way to stop thousands of “city-killing” asteroids that could one day strike our planet, raising emergency concerns in the scientific community and beyond. These insights come from
Does “bouba” sound round to you? How about “maluma”? Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate them with round objects. There have been plenty of ideas put forward about why that would be the case, and most of them have turned out to be wrong.
NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed by near-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the potential to cause devastating damage to cities. While some large asteroids are monitored and their movements tracked, there’s a significant concern over the undetected mid-sized asteroids that could strike without warning. These “city killers,” as