We 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 at a distance of 82,000 miles above its swirling cloud…
Lees meerYou don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma A new research model shows that Earth's oceans could have formed from interactions between a hydrogen-rich early atmosphere and oxygen within the planet's …
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 at a distance of 82,000 miles above its swirling cloud…
Lees meerSome brilliant toys await Dr Makenzie Lystrup in mega space facility Dr Makenzie Lystrup is the new director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland – the biggest employer of space exploration techies and scientists in the US – and swore i…
Lees meerDecade or so in the clink begins April 27 Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' attempt to stave off her time behind bars has been rejected, with a federal judge denying her request to remain free on bail pending appeals and reaffirming the court…
Lees meerWaits for pen-pushers to sign off debut orbital mission SpaceX has pushed back the first-ever orbital test flight of its largest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, to wait for regulatory approval from America's Federal Aviation Administration.…
Lees meerWaits for pen-pushers to sign off debut orbital mission SpaceX has pushed back the first-ever orbital test flight of its largest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, to wait for regulatory approval from America's Federal Aviation Administration.…
Lees meerWaits for pen-pushers to sign off debut orbital mission SpaceX has pushed back the first-ever orbital test flight of its largest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, to wait for regulatory approval from America's Federal Aviation Administration.…
Lees meerIs it wrong to wish on space hardware? Opinion There isn’t an astronomer on the planet who isn’t in two minds about modern technology. The same advances in material science, computers and radio technology that have given humanity spectacular new vi…
Lees meerWaits for pen-pushers to sign off debut orbital mission SpaceX has pushed back the first-ever orbital test flight of its largest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, to wait for regulatory approval from America's Federal Aviation Administration.…
Lees meerMove fast, make things A runaway supermassive black hole is speeding through space and creating a trail of stars behind it, a phenomenon accidentally discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope.…
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 meerMove fast, make things A runaway supermassive black hole is speeding through space and creating a trail of stars behind it, a phenomenon accidentally discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Lees meerMove fast, make things A runaway supermassive black hole is speeding through space and creating a trail of stars behind it, a phenomenon accidentally discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Lees meerCaltech's Martian globe took three years of hand-stitching images Fancy a Mars flyover this weekend? You're in luck, as a team from Caltech just published a 5.7 terapixel mosaic of Mars that can be explored in 3D, just like Google Earth.…
Lees meerCaltech's Martian globe took three years of hand-stitching images Fancy a Mars flyover this weekend? You're in luck, as a team from Caltech just published a 5.7 terapixel mosaic of Mars that can be explored in 3D, just like Google Earth.…
Lees meerAnd commercial operators, with NASA a keen customer The US government has published a strategy for low-Earth orbit research and development, anticipating a transition from the International Space Station (ISS) to the use of private sector successors…
Lees meerJust as namesake ISP Virgin Media* falls silent out of respect Space launch outfit Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy in the US just days after suspending operations and laying off most of its staff. The company said it intends to continue trying…
Lees meerJust as namesake ISP Virgin Media* falls silent out of respect Space launch outfit Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy in the US just days after suspending operations and laying off most of its staff. The company said it intends to continue trying…
Lees meerJust as namesake ISP Virgin Media* falls silent out of respect Space launch outfit Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy in the US just days after suspending operations and laying off most of its staff. The company said it intends to continue trying…
Lees meerFirst for women, people of color, Canucks NASA today named the Artemis Moon program's first crew of astronauts. Among them are the first woman, the first person of color, and the first Canadian set to blast off on a lunar mission…
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