Science Points Out Paths to Interplanetary Adventures
What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus’ atmosphere? Explore the caves of Hyperion? Hike all the way around Mercury? Ride a toboggan down the…
SpaceX Starlink satellite sparks brilliant fireball as it falls from space over US (videos)
A SpaceX Starlink internet satellite fell from space in a blaze of glory overnight, lighting up the Midwest U.S. sky with a brilliant fireball.
NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes ‘blow’ on their food to cool it down
Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward them in a cosmic feeding process.
SpaceX veterans’ hypersonic weapons startup secures $100 million
California-based Castelion is seeking to disrupt the market with fast-paced manufacturing and lower costs The post SpaceX veterans’ hypersonic weapons startup secures $100 million appeared first on SpaceNews.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches next-gen SpainSat NG-1 satellite into orbit
SpaceX launches next generation Spanish communications satellite on Wednesday evening (Jan. 29).
NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here’s what that means
NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.
Communicating with Gravitational Waves
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe. Before that, astronomy depended on observations of light in all its…
NASA Invites Media to Discuss PUNCH Mission to Study Solar Wind
Caption: Illustration of the four PUNCH spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST…
NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station
The Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Spring…
Machine Learning Could Have Predicted the Powerful Solar Storms in 2024
To the casual observer, the Sun seems to be the one constant and never changing. The reality is that the Sun is a seething mass of plasma, electrically charged gas…