Space agency releases report alleging falsified data, researchers who weren’t there, and improper data management The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released details of an investigation that alleged the results of an experiment simula…
Lees meerTiangong's population to double for a week after very, very, long commute, if rare very cold launch succeeds China's Tiangong space station will host six taikonauts for the first time, after a fresh crew reaches the orbital habitat this week.…
Lees meerIf we're going to go beyond the Moon, we'll need food, a way to build stuff, and health diagnostic technology SpaceX's 26th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station arrived this weekend, bringing with it a bundle of scientific …
Lees meerPLUS: Criminal probe of Singapore crypto exchange; Bosch invests in China R&D; $2B APAC datacenter fund formed; and more Asia In brief Japan's space agency has successfully used water to propel a spacecraft and claimed it represents "the world's fi…
Lees meerInsertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space Nine days into its flight to the Moon and beyond, NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule is due to fire its engines for an insertion burn that…
Lees meer23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew The European Space Agency (ESA) announced its intake of 17 astronauts for 2022 on Wednesday – including five career astronauts, 11 astronaut reserves and one selected from its November 2021 Par…
Lees meerNASA's IXPE space telescope pays off with 'dazzling' observation of intergalactic X-rays Scientists have reported a "huge leap forward" in the understanding of light and other electromagnetic radiation emitted by black holes using NASA's newly deplo…
Lees meerJAXA hopes second lost lander can be recovered for radiation experiments Japan's Equilibrium Lunar-Earth point 6U Spacecraft (EQUEELEUS), one of 10 cubesat payloads aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, has successfully sent back to Earth photos of the fa…
Lees meerWe knew Wasp 39b was rich in CO2, but now we have the full molecular picture The James Webb Space Telescope keeps opening the world to new science. This time it's the first molecular and chemical profile of an exoplanet atmosphere, complete with sig…
Lees meerWhy I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27 The range of prefixes used within the International System of Units (SI) has been expanded with new names covering very large and very small numbers, driven in part by …
Lees meerWe're back - for the first of many missions to come NASA's Orion spacecraft has arrived at the Moon, and swung around the far side, as it prepares to settle into an orbit around Earth's biggest satellite that will take it further from home than any …
Lees meerWhen a grain of sand moves fast enough to crack a mirror, it's best to put your back to the wind After several months of discussions, NASA optics and micrometeoroid experts working on the James Webb Space Telescope have figured out how to reduce mic…
Lees meerThey look and behave a lot like those on Earth – except they're made of dust While Mars might have looked a bit like Earth once upon a time, these days they couldn't be much more different. One's a red dust bowl, the other is a beautiful blue marble…
Lees meerAmazon and Cisco even managed to sneak Alexa and Webex on board After several delays, NASA's Artemis I mission has finally launched and the Orion spacecraft is on its way to an orbital date with the Moon. There aren't any human passengers aboard, bu…
Lees meerScientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered Astronomers have long known how planets form, but the when of it has always been unclear. If a Cambridge University team's conclusion fr…
Lees meerTiangong, ISS, and SpaceX satellites will not be affected, according to China's Foreign Ministry The spent Long 6A rocket launching China's Yunhai-3 satellite has broken up, scattering over 50 different chunks into low-Earth orbit after it failed to…
Lees meerHuman scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way Palaeontologists believe they have shed new light on a debate over what kind of dinosaur may have created the ancient tracks at the Lark Quarry Conservation Park in Australia – by analyzi…
Lees meerAfter a troubled journay CAPSTONE marks lunar Gateway for humans NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft has become the first cubesat to make it into lunar orbit, despite suffering a navigational glitch that briefly caused it to lose communication with Mission C…
Lees meerBoffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives? A coronal mass ejection from our Sun sent a shower of charged particles to Mars, generating two types of ultraviolet auroras astronomers have never seen at t…
Lees meerThey'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market A recent demonstration has proven the feasibility of the European Space Agency's (ESA) plan to beam power to Earth from space, …
Lees meer'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent An Cygnus cargo ship has successfully made it to the International Space Station despite the failure of half its solar panel array.…
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