FINCH nano-satellite designed to track soil health from space
WINNIPEG – FINCH is a confusing acronym. It stands for Field Imaging Nanosatellite for Crop residue Hyperspectral mapping.…
The Raptor 3 was supposed to be the engine that finally ended Starship’s reliability problem — instead, on its first flight, several of them quit less than 20 seconds into the boostback burn, dropping the booster into the Gulf and grounding the whole program for a federal mishap review
SpaceX’s Raptor 3 engine — the powerplant the company has spent the better part of two years marketing…
Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 exoplanets, opening new window in the search for life
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, astronomers claim they have directly measured the magnetic fields of multiple planets beyond our…
How Lunar Strike builds a Moon from NASA data, ESA imagery and photogrammetry
Cognition’s creative director Brian Pope doesn’t lead with worldbuilding or even technology, whether that’s the use of Unreal…
Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms
A sonic boom heard throughout the northeastern United States last week was caused by a meteor, NASA confirmed…
Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…
Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury
Most people would say Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that…
Almost all the gold on Earth — every wedding ring, every coin, every gram in every bank vault — was forged in the collision of dead stars billions of years ago, in events so violent that a single one can produce hundreds of Earth-masses of gold, and the heavy elements were then scattered across the galaxy before our sun was even born
On 17 August 2017, two neutron stars in a galaxy called NGC 4993, about 130 million light-years from…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the sky into a weapon, and the worst damage may have come after the impact itself was already over
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate…
SpaceX targets $1.75-trillion valuation including greenshoe option, sources say
Open this photo in gallery: SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off during a test flight from Starbase, Tex.Eric Gay/The…
Virgin Galactic Crashes 32% on Settlement Dilution Fears, AST SpaceMobile Rises 10%, Planet Labs Climbs 9%
Quick Read Virgin Galactic (SPCE) stock crashed 32% after preliminary court approval for a shareholder derivative settlement reignited…
‘Hot Jupiter’ winds blasting at over 15,000 mph reveal 1st evidence of exoplanets with magnetic fields
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic fields around planets beyond the solar system, and they did…