Perhaps gigantic puffy exoplanets aren't as hostile to life as previously thought Astronomers believe five binary-star systems identified by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler Space Telescope could have the right properties to support extraterrestrial life, …
Lees meerOne day you too can experience a few minutes of free fall with great visuals... if you can afford it Video Blue Origin has successfully completed a test launch and landing of its reuseable New Shepard rocket with an advanced capsule design, bringin…
Lees meerFirm's Griffin lander to do the honours Astrobotic has provided an explanation for another of SpaceX boss Elon Musk's tweets with news that its Griffin lander lander will be riding a Falcon Heavy to the Moon in 2023.…
Lees meerWon’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away NASA will upload a ‘minor modification’ of flight control software to the Ingenuity helicopter ahead of its first attempt at pow…
Lees meerInternet rubberneckers and crisis-starved media left to ponder non-event Two days ago, the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking (EU SST) initiative warned of a possible collision on Friday between two orbiting objects, but it now appears they passed e…
Lees meerAs the constellation stands anyway SpaceX's Starlink has been described as the solution to dismal rural broadband. Like any project linked to Elon Musk, the satellite internet constellation is surrounded by a thick cloud of hype. But is it justified…
Lees meerThings to look forward to on Monday morn: Our Who, Me? column and 1st flight of Ingenuity The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is set to take its first flight after engineers spun its blades up to 50rpm in preparation.…
Lees meerDuplo exercise provides vital insight into flawed human heuristic Scientists working on the psychology of problem solving may have hit upon why things always seem to get more complicated.…
Lees meer'It’s an exciting prospect, but too early to say so definitively' professor tells us Physicists are this week giddy with excitement after a decade-long experiment looking at the inner-workings of a muon, a type of particle similar to the electron, h…
Lees meerDeeperVision software coming to Azure Marketplace Microsoft has buddied up with Thales Alenia Space as it continues to set up ground stations in its data centres as part of its Azure Orbital push.…
Lees meerWe might just be witnessing a final state of these incredible space rocks Not only did a telescope on Earth spot, for the first time in history, an extinct comet on a close fly-by of our home world but scientists now reckon the space rock is covered…
Lees meerLabs offered tech by Arm as well as its upstart rival and others Engineers and scientists working on American military research programs can now access RISC-V processor core designs and associated blueprints through DARPA's Toolbox, and use the tech…
Lees meerIf you can't measure it, you can't research it A team of European researchers have succeeded in slowing down antimatter in a study that could lead to more accurate measures of this strangely elusive substance and help confirm the fundamental symmetr…
Lees meerUCL astronomer tells us: 'We were surprised by our discovery' X-rays are emanating from Uranus for the first time, according to the latest observations made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.…
Lees meerUpdates on its blow-up space station while Bigelow threatens to burst NASA's bubble Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has unveiled plans for an enormous inflatable space station tended by cargo and crew carrying versions of its Dream Chaser spaceplane…
Lees meerThat schedule, however, is looking a lot less shiny The ambitiously named Virgin Galactic has unveiled the latest vehicle in its fleet – the Spaceship III named VSS Imagine.…
Lees meerResearch agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce Singapore's industrial research agency has started work on 5G-enabled drones that use LiDAR and cameras to monitor construction sites, then send the data t…
Lees meerExplosions in the mist SpaceX continued its rich tradition of destroying Starship prototypes with SN11 succumbing to an explosive end during a high-altitude flight test.…
Lees meerBoston Dynamics: From Terminator to Amazon worker replacement Analysis Those fearing a takeover of the human race by robots may have failed to adequately account for the drudgery of modern capitalism.…
Lees meerGoodbye darkness, my old friend Constellations of satellites and chunks of space debris orbiting Earth and reflecting sunlight may have lightened our night skies by more than 10 per cent, scientists say. We're also told the light pollution is increa…
Lees meerGamma-ray burst technique could figure out how commonplace these tricksy customers are Scientists have shown that explosions from the early universe might help in solving black holes' middle sibling problem.…
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