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- Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the gravitational waves produced when two black holes fly past each other.
- During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense capabilities.
- Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch an Earth-observing satellite for the Japanese company iQPS early Saturday morning (May 17), and you can watch the action live.
- The Oscar-nominated siblings discuss adapting Martha Wells's award-winning sci-fi novels for the small screen, as Murderbot hits Apple TV.
- One half of the powerful new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope passed major milestone tests, demonstrating space readiness.
- The bright constellations of winter have departed in the west, while the stars of spring are climbing the eastern and southern skies.
- We talked with author Peter F. Hamilton about Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, a prequel novel to the sci-fi RPG video game Exodus.
- NASA's Perseverance rover captured Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the pre-dawn sky over the Red Planet on March 1, 2025.
- SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from California today (May 16).
- NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies.