Behnken and Hurley arrive at the pad and emerge from the Tesla’s gull-wing doors in matching white SpaceX flight suits. After stopping to make a last phone call to their families using a phone in the launchpad tower–a NASA preflight tradition–they climb into the Dragon. T-2:00 Now strapped in, Behnken […]
Watch SpaceX and NASA Launch Two Astronauts to the ISS
Once Behnken and Hurley are in space, it will take about 19 hours for the Crew Dragon to catch up with the space station. During that time, the astronauts will be testing out the capsule’s systems to collect data so NASA can later certify the spacecraft is safe for humans. […]
Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
In 1977, two spacecraft launched to the edges of the solar system. Their mission was to explore the outer planets and send information to the team back on Earth. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 each had different trajectories planned, which meant they would each see different things along their journeys. […]
Turns Out 4 ‘Blank’ Dead Sea Scrolls Actually Have Text
The 16 purported fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Museum of the Bible might be fakes, but at least four such fragments housed at the University of Manchester in the UK are the real deal. For decades, those fragments were presumed to be blank, but a new analysis […]
What Do the Quark Oddities at the Large Hadron Collider Mean?
Amid the chaotic chains of events that ensue when protons smash together at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, one particle has popped up that appears to go to pieces in a peculiar way. All eyes are on the B meson, a yoked pair of quark particles. Having caught whiffs […]
The Quest to Purge New Zealand of Invasive Predators
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The wide, sunny streets of Miramar, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, give the impression of a peaceful neighborhood. On a midsummer day earlier this year, the pohutukawa trees were abloom in a blaze of red, […]