New York Times: A new private launch vehicle is being developed to provide commercial flights to space. Alliant Techsystems (ATK), a longtime NASA contractor, has teamed up with the European aerospace company Astrium to develop the Liberty rocket from parts of NASA’s canceled Ares 1 rocket and Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket. The new rocket would be less expensive to build and could generate jobs at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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