Ship 40 completes single-engine static fire; Booster 20 and Pad 2 see new work
Three NASA astronauts and one from the European Space Agency are the crew of the next Artemis mission, Artemis III. Instead of flying around the Moon like their predecessors, this crew will travel only as far as low Earth orbit. Their assignment is conducting critical rendezvous and docking tests with pathfinder versions of the Human…
That question is at the center of a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, where researchers examine the often-overlooked problem of “false negatives” in the search for extraterrestrial life. These are cases in which life exists, or once existed, but scientists fail to detect it. “We are currently investing a great deal of money in…
Hundreds of people in the US so far have recently developed a specific type of food poisoning that’s causing watery and occasionally explosive diarrhea. Not only is it bad timing with 4th of July celebrations around the corner, but experts are currently at a loss when it comes to the reasons why. As of right…
Rules built to last This proposal did not emerge from nowhere. Throughout 2025, the administration attempted to implement many of the proposed changes through executive orders and agency directives. These included grant freezes on politicized topics and to universities disliked by the current administration; attempts to impound certain unspent program funding; and immediate rejection of…
A field of stars in the constellation Lupus captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is finally beginning its mammoth survey of the universe. After a year of testing and calibration, it is starting the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which is…
The Planetary Society’s Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) Grants provide funding to innovation projects that advance space science and exploration. The 2023 round of STEP Grants awarded $50,000 USD to a team led by Dr. Andrew Palmer of the Florida Institute of Technology to study deep-space agriculture to address the challenge of…