And Elon's still distracted by Twitter, yes? OK, that's probably for the best NASA is considering using SpaceX to bring three astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station after the Russian spacecraft due to return the crew suffered …
Lees meerWoohoo, we're not going to back up over it, belly-mounted cameras confirm A titanium tube that looks a bit like a steampunk telescope has been dropped off by the plucky Perseverance rover, stuffed with a Mars rock sample that NASA astrobiologists ar…
Lees meerFirst satellite to be launched into orbit from western Europe... when it takes off After some tension around a delayed launch of what will be the first satellite to go into orbit from British soil – or indeed from anywhere in western Europe – UK reg…
Lees meerSo long and thanks for all the science As expected, NASA’s Mars InSight lander has run out of energy, leaving the space agency no alternative but to end the mission.…
Lees meerTwo test missions fly first, before Gaganyaan makes India just the fourth nation to put people into orbit India has named the fourth quarter of 2024 as the likely date for the nation’s first crewed space mission.…
Lees meerCompass, protractor and map not required to triangulate lunar coordinates NASA scientists are developing an AI to help future astronauts traverse the Moon's surface without the aid of satellite fixes, instead relying on landmarks to pinpoint lunar l…
Lees meerBut gas likely to find a 'big niche' in rail, aviation, shipping, and industry Hydrogen is not likely to be practically and economically viable for mass use in the short and medium term for heating homes or fueling passenger cars, a report from UK M…
Lees meerPart missile, part spy plane, all Mach 5+ and coming in 2028, maybe The US Air Force has awarded $334 million to defense contractor Leidos to develop the next phase in its hypersonic arsenal: An unmanned craft meant for super-speed spying dubbed "Ma…
Lees meerStudy finds fruit and veg also help improve health and performance, even during space hops Space dietitians have discovered that increasing fruits, vegetables, and fish in the diets of astronauts — compared to their standard rations — can provide mu…
Lees meerPutin it into operation will take a while at this rate The debut of Bill Gates' advanced nuclear power plant will be delayed for at least two years because the only company that makes its fuel in sufficient quantities to make it work is located in R…
Lees meerIf electric car ownership keeps going up, they’ll be coining it Microsoft is one of the investors contributing to the latest funding round for Group14 Technologies, a company developing silicon battery technology for applications including electric …
Lees meerКоролёв, we have a problem … We don't mean to alarm you, but a Russian Soyuz vehicle docked at the International Space Station (ISS) is leaking a "significant" amount of something, resulting in the cancellation of a spacewalk.…
Lees meerWould you ride to the Moon in a sightly used spaceship? Yeah, it's got some miles on it … NASA's Orion capsule – built to send the first woman and another man to the Moon – has arrived at a US naval base in San Diego, California, and will be dragged…
Lees meerInitial attempt at longitudinal magnetic map of our local star China's National Space Science Center has released the first six images of the Sun captured by the nation's Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), aka Kuafu-1.…
Lees meerFirst ignition is awesome, but economics and engineering to deliver clean energy promise are nowhere Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved fusion ignition in a nuclear reactor, it was announced on Tuesday.…
Lees meerI used to be a missileer like you, then I took an ARRW in the knee The US Air Force says it has successfully tested its first fully equipped prototype hypersonic missile.…
Lees meerSWOT will help us understand bodies of water and links to climate change with 10x the precision of older satellites A soon-to-launch NASA satellite will be able to account for much more of the water on our planet without having to extrapolate from g…
Lees meerAudio recordings of local whirlwinds provide data on Mars weather, wear and tear of space hardware Audio data recorded by a NASA rover has, for the first time, allowed earthbound humans to hear the sound of a dust devil passing on the Martian surfac…
Lees meerIf Uncle Sam got more power out of a reaction than it put in, it's a new dawn for clean energy The US Department of Energy (DoE) is expected to announce a major milestone in the ongoing effort to generate clean power through nuclear fusion.…
Lees meerFour out of ten cubesats are toast The Artemis I mission's Orion capsule splashed down on Sunday, capping a very successful mission for NASA, but a less successful one for the mission's 10 tiny cubesats, four of which appear to be lost after a varie…
Lees meerEarth-based experiment provides model result to help expose mysterious substance making up the majority of the Milky Way Scientists have used data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider to show how antimatter can travel long distances through the Milky W…
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