Starship’s launches next-gen Starlink satellites and improves re-entry
SpaceX has completed another major milestone in the development of its fully reusable Starship launch system, successfully deploying…
‘It’s not rocket science’: a day in the life of a Nasa behavioral health scientist | Well actually
Dr Suzanne Bell, an organizational psychologist, leads the Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center.…
A Soviet probe built in 1972 to land on Venus returned to Earth on 10 May 2025, and the same titanium shell meant to survive the hottest planet may have carried it intact through re-entry
A Soviet capsule designed to descend through the atmosphere of Venus finally re-entered an atmosphere on 10 May…
New Research Shows How Clouds Shape the Interiors of sub-Neptunes
To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 6,324 exoplanets in 4,738 star systems, with tens of thousands…
Opportunity was built for a ninety-day mission and a target of six hundred metres, and it ran for fourteen and a half years and forty-five kilometres, until a planet-wide dust storm in 2018 blotted out the sun over Perseverance Valley and its final transmission was a reading of falling power and darkening sky
Opportunity reached Mars with a requirement to survive 90 Martian days and drive at least 600 metres. When…
UCF Researchers Are Developing Tools to Help Find Habitable Planets
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the premier exoplanet-hunting space telescope once it launches sometime in the…
Overnight Science News: The serendipitous discovery of a cosmic collision crater
Tonight’s edition focuses on easy reading science stories. There’s only one dire climate chaos wildfire report and it’s…
NASA satellite reveals ‘hummingbird’ hidden beneath icy Antarctic surface
Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, conducted a science experiment growing potassium chloride crystals.…
How does a planet spin so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its entire year, while the clouds above it race all the way around in just four days?
Venus appears to keep two incompatible clocks. Its solid surface takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once…
Jupiter’s moon Europa hides a saltwater ocean that may contain more than twice the water of all Earth’s oceans combined, yet a new measurement puts 29 kilometres of solid ice above it, a barrier taller than three Mount Everests stacked end to end
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean hidden inside it may hold more than twice as…
Can China’s electric rocket launcher make Elon Musk’s chemical rockets obsolete?
The first version of Falcon 9, launched in 2010, reportedly brought the cost of reaching orbit down by…
A U.S.-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISS – CTV News
A U.S.-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after an 8-month stint on the ISS CTV NewsNASA Sets Coverage…