Space

The recent explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a routine test is a big setback for the private spaceflight company, and will likely have implications for NASA’s Artemis program timeline and the nation’s efforts to return astronauts to the surface of the moon. The May 28 incident, in which no one was injured, occurred while Blue Origin prepared its fourth New Glenn…

Blue Origin just hit a hurdle on its way to the moon. The company’s powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine prelaunch engine test at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night (May 28), creating a huge fireball that lit up the dark Space Coast skies. “We experienced an anomaly during today’s hotfire test,” Blue Origin wrote in an…

A single colossal impact may have rapidly spread water across Mercury and locked much of it into permanently shadowed polar craters — all within the span of a single Mercurian day, or 176 Earth days, according to a new study. Being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury seems like the last place in the solar system where water ice should survive. The sun appears nearly three times larger in…

On May 29, Apple TV will launch “Star City,” their 10-episode spinoff of “For All Mankind” that depicts an alternate history of the space race from the Soviet perspective as they become the first nation to land a human on the moon instead of the United States. But far from being pure fiction, “Star City” is based on the real-life hidden Russian city just…