Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

The midnight growl of a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 21 was more than another launch. It represented the beginning of the U.S. Space Force's most ambitious reusable spacecraft mission yet one that marries state-of-the-art navigation, secure communications, and quick launch readiness into one orbital campaign. 1....

It began, as such stories usually do, with a balloon over Antarctica and with some unexplained signals. Within weeks, there were headlines shouting of a "parallel universe where time reverses." The reality, as the scientists responsible for making the discovery have explained time and again, is much more complicated...

"No other planet in the solar system has as many inner small moons as Uranus," said Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute. That tantalizing statement has gained further significance after astronomers with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered a previously unknown satellite in the ice giant's orbit. The...