Safety panel reports progress in Starliner investigation
Boeing and NASA are making “significant progress” on addressing issues seen on a test flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft last year, an independent NASA safety panel says The…
AVS wins study contract for ESA astrophysics mission
Spanish company Added Value Solutions (AVS) has won a contract for the initial phases of a ESA science mission. The post AVS wins study contract for ESA astrophysics mission appeared…
Mars was hot then cold then hot again. Could life have really survived there?
Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of hot and cold. But what would the impact have…
How Hydrogen Kept Early Mars Warm
Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and (potentially) simple life residing in its…
SPHEREx’s Concentric Cones
Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called…
Clearer career pathways needed to sustain space industry growth
The commercial space industry should establish standardized career paths to attract the talent needed for its rapid expansion, a panel of professional services specialists said at the SpaceCom conference here.…
NASA astronaut Suni Williams sets new record on 5.5-hour spacewalk outside ISS (video)
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were able to remove a stuck radio communications unit on a record-setting spacewalk on Thursday (Jan. 30).
Astronomers find hundreds of ‘hidden’ black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time
Japan’s Resilience moon lander views Earth’s most remote region from orbit (photo)
The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace snapped a stunning image of the Earth as it prepares for its journey to the moon.
Twisted magnetic fields in space sculpt the jets of black holes and baby stars
By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that launches these jets also launch supermassive black hole jets.