Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to life’s origins
A meteor streaked across the New York City area in broad daylight on July 16, 2024, producing a…
How cleaning up space debris could grow to become a big business
This depicts the satellite-filled sky that is now a reality and getting more crowded every week. (Photo by:…
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon with an improvised six-iron: Both remain there 55 years later
Alan Shepard/AI representation of the Golf Club | Wikimedia Commons/ChatGPT Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard paused near the…
Scientists explain how the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism copied the Moon’s changing speed without modern technology |
The Moon does not travel across the sky at a constant pace. Its speed changes throughout each orbit,…
CEO Elon Musk Says This Is the Most Underappreciated Part of SpaceX’s Business
Space Exploration Technologies’ (SPCX +15.83%) second-quarter earnings have come and gone, sparking much intrigue among investors. SpaceX posted strong…
Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope’s little red dots — and how they might be evolving
New evidence has come to light showing that the mysterious ‘little red dots’ discovered in the early universe…
Astronomers Find a New Object from the Early Universe Using Webb Data
On July 12th, 2022, the first images acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released to…
After twelve years and more than seven billion kilometres, Voyager 2 arrived at Neptune within 100 kilometres of where it had been aimed — a margin NASA compares to sinking a golf putt 3,630 kilometres long
Picture a golfer lining up a putt. Now stretch the green until the hole is 3,630 kilometres away…
‘Not looking good right now’: Starship likely to be lost at sea 2 weeks after epic 13th test flight, Elon Musk says
It looks like Starship’s two-week-long ocean adventure won’t have a happy ending. The SpaceX megarocket conducted its 13th…
SpaceX serious about building factories on the moon: ‘It’s going to happen,’ Elon Musk says
As usual, SpaceX is dreaming big. The company plans to build factories on the moon, using robots to…
NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
NASA just made an interstellar tweak to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, known as the “Big Bang”, to keep…
NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny capes
Picture it: A swarm of tiny robot helicopters descends through a reddish-brown sky, landing gracefully on the Martian…