B.C. firm ‘over the moon’ about contract to chart Canada’s role in lunar exploration
Shaun Riddell is “over the moon” — figuratively, if not quite yet literally — since his Langley, B.C., firm…
Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — in the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, opening the door to bringing astronauts safely home one day
Sometime around midday on April 20, 2021, a microwave-sized device on Mars finished its first hour of work…
You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO
One thing that seems certain about the SpaceX IPO is that it’s going to make lots of people…
Mars’s missing water and atmosphere finally tracked down
Today we know Mars to be a dry, barren, dead and desolate world. Its distinctive rust-coloured surface stretches…
SpaceX May Look Expensive Today — Palantir Co-Founder Says It Could Look ‘Really Cheap’ In 10 Years
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In September 2022 a NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a harmless asteroid 11 million kilometres away and shifted its orbit by about 32 minutes — the first time humans had ever moved another world, the moment planetary defence stopped being theory and became something we have actually done.
On 26 September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft struck Dimorphos, a roughly 150-metre moonlet orbiting the…
Quantum Space’s military SPAC is trying to catch SpaceX’s IPO wave
Quantum Space, a startup with plans to build highly maneuverable spacecraft for the U.S. military, announced plans to…
Just 12.5 light years away, around a star so faint it was only discovered in 2003, sits one of the most Earth-like rocky worlds ever found in a habitable zone — and yet we still cannot answer the single question that decides everything: whether it has any atmosphere at all
Teegarden’s Star b is a planet of at least about 1.16 Earth masses, orbiting a red dwarf about…
The Shape of a Black Hole
Here’s something that might stop you in your tracks. Black holes have a temperature! Just think about that..…
Japan successfully launches H3 rocket
Japan successfully launched its flagship H3 rocket Friday morning, marking the resumption of the rocket’s flights roughly six…
Northern Lights: Aurora Might Be Visible In 8 States Thursday Night
Topline The northern lights may make their latest appearance of the month Thursday night, as the National Oceanic…
‘Star City’s’ Agnes O’Casey and Anna Maxwell Martin on Soviet severity, fighting for trousers and furry hats (interview)
“For All Mankind’s” new spinoff, “Star City,” is a certified hit and another brilliant gem in Apple TV’s…