Goodbye RHESSI, thanks for all the data NASA's old defunct RHESSI solar flare satellite plummeted into Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Saharan desert this week, the Department of Defense confirmed. …
Lees meerLetting the calendar cycle for 45 years gives each planet a chance to complete a synodic cycle A pair of researchers claim to have deciphered one of the most mysterious of the Mayan calendars, which they believe represents a 45-year cycle of our nei…
Lees meerJapan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, are already pondering what it takes to make a MoonMobile Hyundai Motor Group announced on Thursday that it has begun building a lunar exploration rover in partnership with major Korean research institutes, and hope…
Lees meer'Rapid unscheduled disassembly' could apply to much of Musk's world SpaceX's second attempt at getting the combined Starship and Super Heavy booster to orbit got further than its try earlier this week. That said, the two stages failed to separate, l…
Lees meerYet another 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' of a Musk-brand spaceship SpaceX's second attempt at getting the combined Starship and Super Heavy booster to orbit got further than its try earlier this week, but the two stages failed to separate, leadin…
Lees meerBut Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air The world’s top EV battery maker, China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), announced on Wednesday a battery it believes boasts s…
Lees meerThey give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters Scientists hoping to narrow down the hunt for life outside of our solar system have hit on an indicator that may guide the search: metal.…
Lees meerWeather forecasting mission to end on April, but Aeolus-2 is on the drawing board The European Space Agency will destroy its Aeolus wind-measuring satellite by sending it hurtling back into Earth's atmosphere with its remaining fuel shortly after it…
Lees meerSundiver spacecraft could snap the first surface pics using solar lens It's time to stop hemming and hawing about the monetary and temporal costs of exploring the outer solar system and beyond, say an international group of boffins. We've all the ma…
Lees meerKinda feels like living in the future we thought we'd have, for a change Stem cells could be manufactured in laboratories floating in space one day if, as is suspected, experiments show they're easier to grow in microgravity conditions than here on …
Lees meerAnd sets a Martian height record for good measure NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was designed to fly just five times, but last week the little rotorcraft that could clocked up its 50th flight in the red planet’s thin atmosphere.…
Lees meerAnother attempt is possible later this week, depending on how the troubleshooting goes Today's first orbital launch of SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy booster was canceled due to a pressurization valve malfunction in the first stage of the combine…
Lees meerAnd sets a Martian height record for good measure NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was designed to fly just five times, but last week the little rotorcraft that could clocked up its 50th flight in the red planet’s thin atmosphere.…
Lees meerAnd you thought patching your production environment was stressful NASA has successfully installed a major software update to its venerable Curiosity Mars rover, which has been rolling over the Red Planet's landscape for more than a decade.…
Lees meerWe speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission Feature On December 4, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to observe Jupiter up close, zipping by some 82,000 miles above the alien world's swirling clo…
Lees meerFew orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years The European Space Agency's Juice probe began its eight-year trek to study Jupiter and its major moons on Friday, after launching into space aboard an Ariane 5.…
Lees meerAlien dust world globe took three years of hand-stitching images to create Fancy a Mars flyover? You're in luck, as a team at Caltech just published a 5.7 terapixel mosaic of Mars that can be explored in 3D.…
Lees meerWe speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission Feature On December 4, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to observe Jupiter up close, zipping by some 82,000 miles above the alien world's swirling clo…
Lees meerWe speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission Feature On December 4, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to observe Jupiter up close, zipping by some 82,000 miles above its swirling clouds. Its twin …
Lees meerWe speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission Updated On December 4, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to observe Jupiter up close, zipping by at a distance of 82,000 miles above its swirling cloud…
Lees meerWe speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission Updated On December 4, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to observe Jupiter up close, zipping by at a distance of 82,000 miles above its swirling cloud…
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