Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

SpaceX has fired all 33 engines on the booster for its next Starship test flight, the first big check in a series of preparations for Flight 15. Space.com reported that the Super Heavy booster, known as Booster 22, ran its Raptor 3 engines

Researchers have described a new kind of landslide in Canada's Northwest Territories, in which large blocks of frozen ground break loose and slide downhill. The slides, called permafrost detachment slides, occur where permafrost is relative

October's full Hunter's Moon dominated the autumn sky overnight on Oct. 25-26, and photographers around the world captured it above skylines, landmarks and lighthouses, Space.com reported. The outlet gathered some of the best images sent in

NASA is overhauling how it chooses and develops its science missions, with the stated aims of cutting costs, simplifying competition and getting spacecraft into space faster, Space.com reported. The new approach is called Competition Model

Pieces of the Moon that were blasted off its surface and later landed on Earth could help scientists answer open questions about how the Moon formed, according to a report from Universe Today. Because the fragments appear to come from all o

NASA's PACE satellite is giving scientists a new way to follow autumn color as it moves across the globe. According to NASA's Earth Observatory, the spacecraft is the first that can measure all three key leaf pigments over the entire planet

Spinosaurus, the giant predator that lived in what is now northern Africa, probably spent the vast majority of its time submerged in water, according to a new study from Yale University. The work also suggests that some ancient marine repti

Mars' enormous canyon system is not just a frozen relic. A marsquake recorded by NASA's InSight lander came from a fault deep beneath Valles Marineris, and scientists say the finding shows the canyon is still tectonically active, billions o

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has shared a test image of the head of the Seagull Nebula, a glowing cloud of gas about 3,700 light-years from Earth, according to Live Science. The picture was taken with an experimental camera while the obser

Used coffee grounds, usually thrown away, could help build stronger concrete. Engineers at RMIT University in Australia found that adding charred coffee grounds can make concrete up to 30 percent stronger, ScienceAlert reported. The idea ta

The moon's changing shape is easier to follow once you know what to watch for, according to a guide from EarthSky. The site lays out four tips that tie the phases to the moon's position relative to the sun and to the daily motion of the sky

Astronomers have found three actively feeding supermassive black holes in a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years from Earth, according to ScienceDaily, which relayed a release from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial P