Tag: Rockets
Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s...
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
During an evening test fire on May 28, 2026, a Blue Origin New Glenn...
SpaceX launches most powerful rocket in history in explosive debut –...
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
On April 20, 2023, a new SpaceX rocket called Starship exploded over the Gulf...
Jupiter’s moons hide giant subsurface oceans – two upcoming missions are...
Mike Sori, Purdue University
On April 13, 2023, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch a rocket carrying...
How many satellites are orbiting Earth?
Supriya Chakrabarti, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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It seems like every week, another rocket...
Bringing Mars rocks back to Earth: On Feb. 18, Perseverance Rover...
Jim Bell, Arizona State University
Editor’s note: On Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission arrived at the red planet...
A real-life deluminator for spotting exoplanets by reflected starlight
Supriya Chakrabarti, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Perhaps you remember the opening scene of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” that took place on Privet Drive....
Why ‘woke’ NBA is struggling to balance its values with Chinese...
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, University of Pennsylvania
It’s not easy being a for-profit organization these days.
Take the National Basketball Association. It found itself in a tricky situation...
Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, artists were stoking dreams of space...
Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College
In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program, observed, “Space...
EXPLORING NATURE
What’s wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading
Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to...
