LuSEE in the sky with ... data Firefly Aerospace has won a second NASA contract to take hardware to the Moon – including the hotly anticipated Lunar Pathfinder satellite that will serve as a communication relay between future Lunarians and Earthling…
Lees meerNASA expects to spend about $1 billion to bring it down safely NASA expects to spend around $1 billion to deorbit the International Space Station as the orbiting laboratory reaches its end of service in the 2030s.…
Lees meerMutant offspring of a semi and a trolleybus suggested as emission-cutting future of commercial transport China's march into the future of everything moved forward yesterday with the debut of an electric vehicle that can draw power from either on-boa…
Lees meerFancy playing with some space Lego? We're going to need a lot of robots to handle dangerous tasks once we get to the Moon, and a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a solution: Modular, wheel-free walking robots made fro…
Lees meerSeriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age To capture fast moving objects — say a cheetah sprinting across the savanna — it's not uncommon for photographers to employ shutter speeds as high as 1/8000th of a second…
Lees meerAims to look at the universe's dark ages without interference from Earth NASA and the US Department of Energy hope to build a lunar telescope on the far side of the Moon that will hunt for ancient radio waves, emitted just 380,000 years after the Bi…
Lees meerAims to look at the universe's dark ages without interference from Earth NASA and the US Department of Energy hope to build a lunar telescope on the far side of the Moon that will hunt for ancient radio waves emitted just 380,000 years after the Big…
Lees meerLuckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance Astronomers have another near-Earth object on their ones-to-watch lists: a newly discovered 50-metre-wide asteroid that could hit Earth on Valentine's Day…
Lees meerNow drink your space juice It looks likely that the water on Earth is older than the Sun and the stuff we drink today probably isn't all that different than it was over 4.6 billion years ago when our star formed.…
Lees meerHeat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts NASA is ready to fly a crew of astronauts to the Moon next year after the success of the first test flight of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion ca…
Lees meerRelativity Space relatively grounded The inaugural launch of Terran-1, built by aerospace startup Relativity Space from 90 percent 3D-printed parts, was cancelled Wednesday.…
Lees meerVery world-beating funding With the noble goal "to grow the UK as a global space superpower," the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has scraped together a princely £1.6 million ($1.9 million) to be divvied up between eight research programs.…
Lees meerVery world-beating funding With the noble goal "to grow the UK as a global space superpower," the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has scraped together a princely £1.6 million ($1.9 million) to be divvied up between eight research programs.…
Lees meerDestroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible Japan's space exploration agency (JAXA) has destroyed the first of its next-gen H3 boosters after it went off course during its maiden test flight.…
Lees meerBreak out the tinfoil hats: Boffins' experimental tech improves computer mind reading There's a lot of noise to signal in the machine-learning model world, but this demo is genuinely impressive – or scary, if you are given to recreationally climbing…
Lees meer'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job NASA engineers have managed to restore the Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft to working condition by using the oldest trick in the computing book.…
Lees meerBreak out the tinfoil hats: boffins' experimental tech improves computer mind reading There's a lot of noise to signal in the machine-learning model world, but this demo is genuinely impressive – or scary, if you are given to recreationally climbing…
Lees meer'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job NASA engineers have managed to restore the Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft to working condition by using the oldest trick in the computing book.…
Lees meerDestroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible Japan's space exploration agency (JAXA) has destroyed the first of its next-gen H3 boosters after it went off course during its maiden test flight.…
Lees meerDestroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) has destroyed the first of its next-gen H3 boosters after it went off course during its maiden test flight.…
Lees meerArianespace Vega-C rocket failure sent two Airbus satellites into the Atlantic Ocean In December of last year, two of Airbus’ Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging satellites intended for a polar Sun-synchronous orbit aboard an Arianespace Vega C rocket ended …
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