‘Crazy idea’ succeeds: Scientists monitor space junk with radio telescopes
Radio telescopes are designed to listen for signals from the stars and from distant galaxies, but scientists are…
Ingenuity was funded as a technology demonstration with five flights and a thirty-day window, assembled partly from mobile phone components because nothing space-rated was light enough, and it flew seventy-two times across nearly three years before a rotor tip touched the ground and permanently grounded the first aircraft to fly on another planet
Ingenuity arrived on Mars with no scientific instrument, no requirement to help Perseverance find rocks and no promise…
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its biggest push into…
Vertical liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
Ariane 6 launches to the sky on 9 July 2024 on its inaugural flight VA262. Europe’s newest heavy-lift…
World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain | Astronomy
On a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out…
He was one of the most distinguished American astronomers of his day, but an obsession with Martians became his downfall
Professor David Peck Todd is one of the most remarkable astronomers you’ve never heard of. A distinguished professor…
Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
Nobody knows where the phrase “Kill two birds with one stone” originated. But the fact that it—or a…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs had unexpected origins
A new study has found that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a rare, dry type of…
The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun’s outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre behind it stay at roughly the temperature of a comfortable living room
At its closest approaches, Parker Solar Probe passes about 6.2 million kilometres above the Sun’s visible surface. Sunlight…
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth alone for three days, longer than every American astronaut combined had managed by then
When you picture the people who flew the first space missions, you probably picture a certain kind of…
Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too.…
Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing
After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big…