NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond…
China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart),…
Elon Musk Says If SpaceX Accomplishes Its Goals, ‘It Will Be Worth More Than The Rest of Earth’ — Though He’s Also Said ‘Money Will Stop Being Relevant’
Image of CEO Elon Musk by Frederic Legrand – COMEO via Shutterstock Trying to predict Elon Musk’s vision…
NASA Shares Beautiful Timelapse Of The Psyche Spacecraft’s View Over Mars
The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Uncovers Evidence of 4 Billion Year Old Impacts
NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the rim of the Jezero Crater, an impact basin in Mars’ northern…
Space launch costs could fall 90% by 2040
Getting something into space has always been incredibly expensive. Every extra pound of equipment has come with a…
Rocket Lab’s Latest Deal Puts It on a Collision Course With SpaceX
The share prices of space economy stocks may be sinking, but that does not make the sector any…
Meteorite strike of New Jersey home reveals life clues
View larger. | Meteorite strike of New Jersey home! Here’s the space rock itself. It crashed through the…
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
A PhD student in Sydney has produced cosmic dust from scratch by recreating a small piece of the…
Voyager 1 is still crossing interstellar space with six computers holding about 68 kilobytes of memory between them — less storage than a single compressed photograph on a modern phone
Voyager 1 carries six flight-computer units designed in the early 1970s, and NASA’s own accounting puts their combined…
Rocket Lab’s Latest Deal Puts It on a Collision Course With SpaceX
The share prices of space economy stocks may be sinking, but that does not make the sector any…