Another Starship in flames: Why are Elon Musk’s rockets exploding?
The fourth consecutive failure of the spacecraft in six months raises questions about the reliability of SpaceX’s most ambitious project
The fourth consecutive failure of the spacecraft in six months raises questions about the reliability of SpaceX’s most ambitious project

The documentary ‘Sally’ revisits the story of the first American woman to go into space and the hurdles she faced back on Earth

The public fallout brings to a close, at least for the moment, a high-profile alliance that their allies are now trying to rebuild

An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, Jews, and Christians that took place in Spain at the end of the Middle Ages

Astronomers in the United States and Spain have detected crystalline ice on a Sun-like star in its infancy

Human life, and science as part of it, are based on certain mental schemes that we call paradigms, and which are sometimes broken to open the mind to new horizon

EL PAÍS visits the hermetic Chinese rocket launch base in the Gobi desert as the race to put people back on the Moon ramps up

The physicist, one of the women who has spent the most time outside a spacecraft, discusses NASA, new technology, and what it feels like to walk in space

Scientists announce detection of compounds on an extrasolar planet that on Earth only produce living organisms, but other experts urge caution

The American Astronomical Society warns that the proposed cuts would have ‘catastrophic’ consequences for the United States’ leadership in space exploration

The method uses artificial intelligence and learning models based on 80 years of physical data

Research cuts are threatening the country’s global dominance and herald a world with fewer drugs and more preventable deaths

A new observation estimates that the space rock measures 60 meters and has a 2% chance of impacting the satellite

Microscopic red algae, responsible for a phenomenon also known as watermelon snow or blood snow, are proliferating due to global warming and in turn accelerating it

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, dragging space-time with it

The Moon will be completely covered by the Earth’s shadow and bathed in a reddish glow on the night of March 13

The director of the Senegalese Space Study Agency has just led the launch of the first Senegalese nanosatellite into space

The multibillion-dollar overspend by the ‘Artemis’ lunar program puts it in the crosshairs of the government efficiency agency, which is out to cut staffing and expenses

A used Dragon capsule, rather than a new one, will allow the crew that will replace Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to reach the International Space Station starting March 12

Having become one of the great cultural events in California, PST ART advocates dialogue between both disciplines with an ecological message that resonates in a landscape scorched by fires

The probability of a 2032 collision with the 50-meter asteroid has risen to 1.9%. However, ongoing calculations in the coming days and weeks may cause this estimate to fluctuate

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic arsenal, will facilitate the research of astronauts scheduled for a lunar landing within two years

Chorus waves, which affect the safety of astronauts and satellites, have been found in a place where their existence was thought impossible

Italian climatologist Carlo Buontempo regrets that society has not been able to take advantage of the abundant scientific information available on the planet’s climate imbalance

Last year was the warmest on record and the first time the average temperature surpassed the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold above pre-industrial levels

The US space agency is finalizing the launch of a new telescope to explore planets beyond the Solar System

The Spanish scientist has begun her relentless training to become an extraterrestrial being. EL PAÍS accompanies her for a day in her new life