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…
Most powerful 'ghost particle' ever may have come from a cosmic particle accelerator fed by a black hole
May 29, 2026
Scientists have discovered an ultra-powerful “ghost particle” or neutrino, which struck Earth and was detected in the Mediterranean Sea in 2023, may have been blasted at Earth by blazars powered by a feasting black hole engine.
Blazars are a type of quasar, the…
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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…
Two Russian cosmonauts worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday (May 27).
Expedition 74 commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergei Mikaev spent 6 hours and 5 minutes outside…
China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'
May 28, 2026
China is establishing an integrated program called the Lunar Exploration Program, melding both its robotic Chang’e lunar probe activities with the country’s human spaceflight program. Zhang Jingbo, spokesman for the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) agency, made…
What is Star City, the secret Cold War cosmonaut training town in Apple TV's new 'For All Mankind' spinoff?
May 28, 2026
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…
Anyone who has been paying attention to cosmology over the past few years is aware of problems with our best attempts to explain why the universe is the way it is.
Our standard model, Lambda-CDM (or LCDM), is one of the most successful theories in the history of science. It…
Unusual red northern lights over Japan suggest some solar storms are stronger than we thought
May 27, 2026
A rare crimson aurora glowing over northern Japan may be a sign that some solar storms are more powerful than scientists once believed.
Researchers studying faint red auroras observed above Japan in June 2024 found that the displays stretched far higher into Earth’s…
'Very interesting wiggles' in data from silent NASA Mars spacecraft lead to unexpected solar wind discovery
May 27, 2026
Even as NASA continues to try to restore contact with the MAVEN spacecraft after it fell silent in late 2025, scientists analyzing its data have spotted a phenomenon in Mars’ atmosphere that, until now, had only been observed around strongly magnetized planets like Earth.
The finding could help scientists better understand how space weather shapes worlds without protective magnetic shields…
