Students prove $30 device could help declutter Earth's backyard A prototype satellite built to test a deployable drag sail to de-orbit satellites appears to have fulfilled its purpose, burning up on re-entry earlier this month after spending just 44…
Lees meerUS Air Force keeping mum on results of weekend test A deal's a deal. Despite canning Lockheed Martin's hypersonic weapon program over repeat failures, the US Air Force is still flying planned tests of the platform – including one over the weekend th…
Lees meerStudents prove $30 device could help declutter Earth's backyard A prototype satellite built to test a deployable drag sail to de-orbit satellites appears to have fulfilled its purpose, burning up on re-entry earlier this month after spending just 44…
Lees meerAssuming the orbital hotel is even built by then The first group of astronauts to set foot into NASA's Moon-orbiting Gateway space station will be the Artemis IV crew in 2028, if everything goes as planned.…
Lees meerFirst lunar attempt since Soviet era ends in катастрофа Russia’s rushed attempt to land a probe on the Moon has failed.…
Lees meerFirst lunar attempt since Soviet era ends in катастрофа Russia’s rushed attempt to land a probe on the Moon has failed.…
Lees meerIf a facility falls down, 'the microscope inside it is useless to you' While NASA prepares to journey through the unforgiving vacuum of space to the Moon and Mars, it faces a terrestrial threat in the meantime. A vacuum of funding that has left its …
Lees meerNo rush on this seemingly vital component of defense, guys It's taken a few years, but the US Space Force finally has a unit dedicated to target analysis, development, and engagement.…
Lees meerFirst up: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 A group of scientists say they are the first to reconstruct a recognizable song from data collected directly from the brain by monitoring electrical activity and modeling the resultant patterns with regress…
Lees meerLess lunacy? LunA-10 is seeking designs for 'optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure' In DARPA's view, if we're going to live on the Moon, we need to rethink our technological paradigm. The research agency has thus launched its latest project …
Lees meerTaming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated When humans head off to colonize Mars, it's not entirely clear how many people will be needed to keep everyone alive.…
Lees meerMissions bid to secure comms time on Deep Space Network The remarkable images and data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are being sent to Earth after more than six months of jockeying to secure network resources, NASA has revealed.…
Lees meerTaming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated When humans head off to colonize the Red Planet, it's not entirely clear how many colonists will be needed to keep everyone alive.…
Lees meerStorms on Saturn last for hundreds of years, leaving long-lasting impacts and raising lots of scientific questions Scientists are reassessing theories of how gas giants form after observing that fallout from Saturn's cyclical mega storms can last fo…
Lees meerIndia's close to landing one, too, and Japan is counting down to a launch If you're thinking of taking a trip to the Moon in the next few weeks, check the traffic report before you fly: three nations are currently preparing their attempts to land on…
Lees meerScientists: Martian mud cracked in a manner that only happens after repeated cycles of drying The Mars Curiosity rover continues to make discoveries that shed light on the early days of the Red Planet, this time having found evidence that the unforg…
Lees meerDepending on where you draw the line Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first-ever private commercial spaceflight on Thursday, flying three space tourists to altitudes high enough to experience zero-gravity conditions for a few minutes.…
Lees meerNo one's in danger but we may need to rethink some cabin materials The International Space Station has perhaps a bit of a housekeeping issue on its hands. Analysis of dust samples from its air filters suggest astronauts are likely exposed to higher …
Lees meerLopsided solids promise applications in quantum mechanics and medicine Researchers have developed a method to construct solid objects that roll down pre-determined paths, which they reckon could have applications in quantum mechanics and medicine.…
Lees meerLight from Earendel takes 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, and it's serendipitous the JWST can see it at all It was a little more than a year ago that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted the most distant star ever observed: the 12.9 billion ligh…
Lees meerIt may actually be the anti-superconductor, quips one research team Enthusiasm over the purported room temperature superconductor LK-99 is waning further as more research teams are unable to reproduce the original findings. In fact, one at a US univ…
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