aeronews_admin

Watch the moment a brilliant green fireball meteor turns night to day over Tennessee (video)

A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly turning…

9 months ago

Foldable Solar Sails Could Help With Aerobraking and Atmospheric Reentry

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna deployments…

9 months ago

Beyond the downlink: Why Earth-independent AI is the next moat in space operations

Every new space mission runs into the same wall: physics and fragility. Physics, because the speed of light and contested…

9 months ago

Beyond Gravity plans US push after fivefold boost in European solar mechanism output

Beyond Gravity is weighing expanding solar array drive mechanism production in Florida to support Golden Dome and other U.S. space…

9 months ago

Humble Yeast Has Planetary Survival Skills

Rather randomly I’ve just returned from a theatre tour where my science show featured yeast in one of the experiments,…

9 months ago

When Fire Brought Ice to Mars

Mars is a planet of mystery! Its surface today is cold and dry, yet evidence suggests it was once home…

9 months ago

When Tides Turn White Dwarfs Hot

White dwarfs are stellar corpses, the slowly cooling remnants of stars that ran out of fuel billions of years ago.…

9 months ago

Solving the Mystery of Solar Rain

It rains on the Sun! Although not in any way we'd recognise from Earth. In the Sun's corona, the superheated…

9 months ago

When Black Holes Don’t Play by the Rules

Scientists have begun to piece together the origin story of a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that met their…

9 months ago

Rocket Lab launches seventh Synspective radar imaging satellite

Rocket Lab launched a spacecraft for one Japanese radar imaging company Oct. 14, just days after signing a contract for…

9 months ago