NASA heads to Death Valley to test new Mars drone tech
After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS To Whizz Past Earth This December Just 1.8 AU Away, Before A Potentially Course-Altering Encounter With Jupiter
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this month, whizzing by at 270 million kilometers…
New discovery sets humanity up to image “alien Earth”
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China’s reusable rocket launch sparks global buzz as a technological leap
ZQ-3 Y1 rocket took off for maiden flight from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Test Zone at noon…
Ashlee Vance Says SpaceX Miniseries “Is Dead” At HBO
A limited series about Elon Musk‘s SpaceX is no longer moving forward at HBO. On Wednesday, author Ashlee…
Geminids meteor shower 2025: When and where to watch the spectacular December nights with up to 120 shooting stars per hour |
The Geminids meteor shower is widely regarded as one of the brightest and most dependable annual celestial events.…
Indian researchers find galaxy like Milky Way from 12 billion years ago
Astronomers in India say their discovery of a massive galaxy from when the Universe was only 1.5 billion…
Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Bio-Essential Sugars in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
A team of researchers from the United States and Japan has analyzed an extract from a sample of…
2025’s Geminids will be the best meteor shower of the year
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SpaceX Gets OK to Build 2 Starship Launch Pads at NASA’s Cape Canaveral
SpaceX has been granted approval to build two launch pads at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space…
Antares raises $96 million for nuclear reactors on Earth and in space
WASHINGTON — Nuclear power startup Antares announced a $96 million Series B round Dec. 2 to fund work…
How to Catch a Comet That Hasn’t Been Discovered Yet
There’s been a lot of speculation recently about interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS – much of which is probably caused…