Why SpaceX's Starship Falls Sideways Before Flipping Upright To Land
SpaceX knows how to land a rocket upright, so Starship's sideways descent might seem like an odd choice. There's a reason it doesn't take a more direct route.
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Astronomers Find First Planet With Earth-Like Water And Weather Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers watched water clouds grow thicker and thinner on a world trillions of miles away. It's familiar weather in a place that's otherwise unlike Earth.
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The Secret Behind Tesla's Roadster Wall Trick Is Hiding In Plain Sight
It seemed like sci-fi, but Tesla insists it's real. The second-generation Tesla Roadster's wall and flip tricks included thrust and rocket augments.
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What Starlink Direct-To-Cell Can (And Can't) Actually Do On Your Phone
It sounds like sci-fi, but satellite-connected cell service really is here. There are some asterisks, though, and it's clearly still in the beginning stages.
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SpaceXAI's Plan To Deal With Starlink Collisions Is Facing An International Obstacle
As Starlink's orbital footprint grows, SpaceXAI wants to tackle a mounting safety challenge. But getting other satellite operators on board may prove difficult.
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Why SpaceX Wants To Catch Starship Instead Of Giving It Landing Legs
SpaceX has used landing legs for most of its spacecraft in the past, but the newest model will use another mechanism. Here's why SpaceX plans to catch Starship
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SpaceX Achieved A New NASA Record - Here's What It Is
SpaceX's Crew-13, aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket, broke one record that NASA previously held. Here's what the record is and how SpaceX made it possible.
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Why SpaceX Chose Texas For Starship When Florida Was Already Its Home Base
Florida would seem like the obvious place for SpaceX to launch Starship, but the company chose Texas instead. The decision came with some trade-offs.
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SpaceX Needs $40 Billion To Buy Chips From Nvidia — Here's Why
SpaceX wants to spend billions on Nvidia chips, but these aren't the graphics cards you'd put in a gaming PC. The company has something much bigger in mind.
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How Do Rockets Avoid Hitting Satellites And Space Debris During Launch?
With how many rockets are launched between NASA and private agencies like SpaceX, it's a wonder that more rockets don't accidentally collide with satellites.
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SpaceX Just Proved Rocket Reuse Works Better Than Anyone Expected
Putting things into outer space is expensive, that's why reusable rocket boosters have been the dream for decades, and SpaceX is making it work.
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How Many SpaceX Launches Have Been Completed?
SpaceX's launch history runs from early Falcon 1 failures to astronaut flights and Starship tests, with one rocket doing most of the work along the way.
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Elon Musk Is Planning To Retire One Of SpaceX's Most Popular Rockets — Here's Why
SpaceX has relied on the same rocket for years of astronaut trips and satellite launches, but Elon Musk says it won't stay at the center of SpaceX forever.
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Why Doesn't NASA Use More Reusable Rockets?
Reusing a rocket sounds like an obvious way for NASA to save money, but the cost of a SpaceX launch and the price the agency pays for it aren't the same thing.
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SpaceX's Starship Needs To Be Fully Operational By 2028 — Here's Why
SpaceX has plenty left to test on Starship, from refueling to docking in orbit, and NASA is counting on it to finish in time for a much bigger assignment.
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Why Are Nautical Miles Used To Measure Distance In Space?
Judging distance by miles is good enough for most of us on the ground, but for ocean-going vessels and spacecraft nautical miles make more sense.
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How Do Space Mirrors Actually Work?
A company called Reflect Orbital received permission to send a test satellite into orbit to reflect sunlight back to Earth, how does this even work?
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Is SpaceX's Starship The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built?
SpaceX fitted Starship's first-stage booster with 33 engines, enough to make you wonder how it compares with the most powerful rockets humans have ever built.
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Astronomers Detected Radio Signals From An Alien Planet - Here's What We Know
Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes, not planets.
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Merlin Vs. Raptor: How Do These SpaceX Rocket Engines Compare?
While both the Merlin and Raptor rocket engines are being used by SpaceX for launch missions, there are key differences between the two designs.
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NASA And Boeing's Starliner Is Going Back To Space Soon With One Big Change
Boeing's Starliner could return to space before the year is out, but NASA has a different plan in place after the problems that plagued its last mission.
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SpaceX Just Revealed That Orbital Data Centers Will Be Here Sooner Than You Think
There's been a lot of chatter lately about orbital data centers, and contrary to popular belief, satellite-based computing is closer than you think.
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Not Satellites, Not Telescopes: The Next Big Solar Storm Could Be Predicted By Trees
If scientists want to better understand solar storms and the cycles that drive them, they need longitudinal data, which they get from old trees.
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Astronomers Believe The Solar System Once Had Nine Planets - And The Sun Ate One Of Them
The status of Pluto not withstanding, our solar system has 8 planets, but one astronomer believes we used to have a ninth that was eaten by the sun.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Discovered This Little Red Dot Is Actually An Ancient Black Hole
The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most advanced instruments ever built, and the little red dot it saw could change all of cosmology.
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Mercury Is Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Estimated - Here's What That Means
There's a lot we don't know about our solar system, but that means we're always learning new stuff, like how much weight our neighbors have lost.
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China's Mars Mission Is Set To Become A Space Milestone - Here's Why
In case you haven't been paying attention, there's a new space race going on, and if China's upcoming Mars mission is a success, they may be winning.
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