Mark your diary for 2061 – if you're over the disappointment of 1986's fuzzy blob Halley's Comet, officially 1P/Halley, has begun its long journey back towards Earth after making it to aphelion – the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun – on Dec…
Lees meerAnother Johnson era fantasy fails to survive its encounter with science, engineering and economics A second planned trial to provide hydrogen for home heating was this week officially cancelled in England, a government minister has confirmed.…
Lees meerMark your diary for 2061 – if you're over the disappointment of 1986's fuzzy blob Halley's Comet, officially 1P/Halley, has begun its long journey back towards Earth after making it to aphelion – the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun – on Dec…
Lees meerInterstellar Glory Space Technology gets a boost – even though it's yet to reach orbit Chinese private space biz i-Space (not to be confused with Japanese aerospace concern iSpace) has recycled a rocket just 38 days after its previous flight.…
Lees meerAs world heads into 2024, scientists are asked: When will Big Oil face the heat? Comment You surely noticed much of the world was on fire this year, especially if you were in the western United States, western or eastern Canada, Australia, Greece, …
Lees meerSadly not saucy enough in this state for return trip to Earth There is good news and bad news regarding the two tomatoes lost aboard the International Space Station (ISS) last year. The good news is that they've been found. The bad news is that they…
Lees meerAnother Johnson era fantasy fails to survive its encounter with science, engineering and economics A second planned trial to provide hydrogen for home heating was this week officially cancelled in England, a government minister has confirmed.…
Lees meerScience and telemetry data hit by latest issue NASA's veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped transmitting engineering and science data back to Earth.…
Lees meerDoes the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Future spacecraft flying close to Enceladus may be able to detect amino acids, an essential class of organic compounds for life on Earth, in the explosive plumes erupting f…
Lees meerLet's choo-choo-choose safety, folks Space weather can wreak havoc on electronic systems, but while most folks focus on protecting datacenters or the power grid, a group of UK researchers are warning that relatively mild solar storms could bork trai…
Lees meerNASA's long-lived MAVEN probe was there taking notes NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission has observed an abrupt and dramatic drop in the solar wind, resulting in an expansion of the Martian atmosphere and magnetosphere by t…
Lees meerAs its companion helicopter plans its furthest flight yet NASA has celebrated the Perseverance Rover's 1000th Martian day of operations, and prepared the longest ever flight for the helicopter that accompanied it to the home of Marvin.…
Lees meerLet's choo-choo-choose safety, folks Space weather can wreak havoc on electronic systems, but while most folks focus on protecting datacenters or the power grid, a group of UK researchers are warning that relatively mild solar storms could bork trai…
Lees meerLet's choo-choo-choose safety, folks Space weather can wreak havoc on electronic systems, but while most folks focus on protecting datacenters or the power grid, a group of UK researchers are warning that relatively mild solar storms could bork trai…
Lees meerInterstellar Glory Space Technology gets a boost – even though it's yet to reach orbit Chinese private space biz i-Space (not to be confused with Japanese aerospace concern iSpace) has recycled a rocket just 38 days after its previous flight.…
Lees meerExperimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation The US Department of Energy has released $42 million in seed funding to help research the nuclear fusion techniques successfully demonstrated at Lawrence…
Lees meerScheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Stratolaunch has taken its Talon-A reusable hypersonic aircraft into the sky fully fueled and ready to launch, but the long-delayed test flight isn't happening yet. …
Lees meerNo repair mission required – for now The Hubble Space Telescope is expected to resume science operations on Friday, after a gyroscope glitch forced NASA to suspend astronomical observations for weeks.…
Lees meerIn the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind Inspired by the success of NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, Chinese boffins are proposing a more capable extraterrestrial flier for a planned Mars sample return mission. …
Lees meerPrecursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals Iran on Wednesday launched a "biological capsule" into low Earth orbit – an effort the nation's minister of communications claims is a precursor to crewed flights.…
Lees meerScheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Stratolaunch has taken its Talon-A reusable hypersonic aircraft into the sky fully fueled and ready to launch, but the long-delayed test flight isn't happening yet. …
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