Japan and the United Arab Emirates launched landers, while JPL has a boring old satellite Humanity has retrieved one attempt to explore its natural satellite, and launched three more.…
Lees meerWe're about to find out if those parachutes and heat shield work NASA's crewless Orion capsule is all set to return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, December 11 after spending nearly a month orbiting the Moon.…
Lees meerIt's not our fault, says Civil Aviation Authority Virgin Orbit's plan to launch a rocket into space from the UK has been delayed.…
Lees meerFor one so young, it's oddly not into heavy metal A nearby galaxy – dubbed Peekaboo because it has long been hidden behind a star – has finally come into view enough for NASA to discover that it's more than just a tease. It offers a glance into the …
Lees meerIt's the Ice Age/Jurassic Park crossover we've been waiting for Scientists have recovered the oldest DNA samples yet, in sediment left over from the Ice Age in Northern Greenland, according to research published in Nature.…
Lees meerBoeing … Boeing … gone An aviation era has come to an end as Boeing's last 747 has taxied out of the Everett, Washington factory, punctuating the jumbo jet's 54-year production run.…
Lees meerThey thought they'd grokked short and long types.... then an awkward third kind came along Once the data looked straightforward, at least in terms of bursts of gamma rays from outer space. The high-energy electromagnetic radiation was classified int…
Lees meerGreen tech will be largest power source by 2025, says IEA, but even accelerated rollouts might not stave off disaster The International Energy Agency is revising its predictions for renewable energy growth upward by 30 percent, and reckons renewable…
Lees meerRushed 'hack job' surgeries cause creatures to needless die, staffers claim Neuralink is reportedly being investigated by the US government for possibly mistreating animals used in lab experiments as the company rushes to build an implantable brain …
Lees meerBofffins claim lunar manipulator is tougher than a Terminator NASA is testing a new robotic arm that could revolutionize exoplanetary science for a reason most of us have probably never even considered: It doesn't need to be kept warm in order to wo…
Lees meerExposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include disinterest, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation Exposure to industrial robots in the workplace leads to less participation in the labor force, less employment, and less pay, according t…
Lees meerSocio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers The health benefits of replacing fossil fuel-burning power plants with wind energy are quantifiable, says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bu…
Lees meerDiscovery shows 'astrobiological potential of subsurface habitable environments,' researchers say Researchers have discovered a driver for volcanic activity on Mars, a red planet once thought to have no active seismic geology.…
Lees meerWorld's biggest radio telescope to have first parts up and running by 2024 After thirty years of development, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) announced Monday it has commenced construction of its radio telescopes in both South Africa a…
Lees meerHeat shield will be put to the test for the first time, what could go wrong? NASA's Orion capsule, designed to send the next crew of astronauts to the Moon, is heading back to Earth after spending some time in a distant retrograde orbit above the sa…
Lees meerThis is a Musk prediction, so don't get your hopes up After testing on monkeys and pigs, Neuralink may be able to plant its first chip into a human brain in six months, its founder and CEO Elon Musk claimed on Wednesday.…
Lees meerLift-off postponed for 'additional pre-flight checkouts' SpaceX postponed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a lunar lander and rover built by a private Japanese aerospace company and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency rover to the Moon,…
Lees meerBeing over budget, behind schedule, becoming obsolete, and impeding other projects isn't a way to get a green light NASA has cancelled its mission to launch a greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite called GeoCarb, but climate-conscious individuals shou…
Lees meerMove comes as National Grid decided not to go live on blackout prevention scheme last night The UK government today confirmed it would take a joint stake in the Sizewell C nuclear plant, allowing for "China General Nuclear's exit from the project," …
Lees meerICON will have to figure out how to build a machine that uses lunar regolith and operates in lunar gravity NASA has awarded a $57.2 million contract to ICON, a Texan 3D-printing startup, to build "space-based construction systems" on the surface of …
Lees meerSustainable aviation will require something lighter than batteries An aviation first has been reached in the UK, with Rolls-Royce and easyJet saying they have conducted the "world's first run of a modern aero engine on hydrogen." …
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