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Arianespace targets triple satellite launch today

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 22:11

Arianespace plans to bring three satellites aloft from French Guiana on Tuesday (Dec. 13), and the nearly two-hour launch window opens at 3:30 p.m. EST.

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Final frontier: ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ marked the end of an era 20 years ago today

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 21:11

2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis” blows out the candles on its big 20th birthday today.

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‘Quantum time flip’ makes light move simultaneously forward and backward in time

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 20:11

The time-flipped photon can’t be used to restage “Back to the Future,” but it could help us figure out some of the universe’s most mysterious phenomena.

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NASA’s retired flying telescope heads to museum

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 18:11

After eight years of science missions, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft has found permanent residence at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona.

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Relive NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission with this epic highlight reel

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 18:11

Ride to space and back again in the Artemis 1 footage, which showcases views of Earth, the moon and NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket.

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US Air Force launches 1st operational hypersonic missile

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 05:11

The United States Air Force has successfully tested its first prototype hypersonic missile, the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW.

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Supernova algorithm classifies 1,000 dying stars without error

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 04:11

A newly developed algorithm is helping astronomers search through massive amounts of data from Zwicky Transient Facility categorizing powerful cosmic explosions called supernovas.

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Pesky ‘leap second’ will be abolished by 2035

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 03:11

An international group of experts has voted to retire the leap second by 2035.

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