2 Missions, 3 Launches, and Up to $300 Million for Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is on a roll — not that you could tell from the stock price.…
Anthropic, SpaceX Hand Google Profit Windfall
At least on paper, for now, Google’s investments inAnthropic and SpaceX have paid off and enabled its parent…
Should Scientists Have Research “Reserves” on the Moon?
The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary scientists…
Carl Sagan’s Timeless Quote on Imagination Inspires Exploration of the Cosmos
The universe is such an unexplored and massive place that it’s no wonder so many of us are…
Awais Ahmed: This Karnataka boy grew up in a village without the internet; today, his space-tech startup works with NASA: What Pixxel CEO Awais Ahmed’s parents invested in |
Pixxel co-founder Awais Ahmed with his parents. (Image courtesy: The Hindu) Karnataka’s Awais Ahmed is now emerging as…
Should Artemis IV astronauts actually land near the moon’s south pole? Artemis II pilot says the lunar equator might be better
The moon’s south pole has long been the target of NASA’s Artemis lunar landing missions, but one Artemis…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the plume images for camera errors
When Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in March 1979, scientists expected its moon Io to be cold, battered…
The Red Potato Galaxy and its Stifling Neighbour
Galaxies surrounded by reservoirs of cold gas draw that gas into themselves and convert it into new stars.…
FCC approves launch of satellite designed to reflect sunlight back to Earth
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a satellite launch on Thursday to test a reflector designed to…
Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of…
Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn’s moon Titan
Picture a car-sized machine sitting on an orange, frozen plain. It powers up eight rotors, rises into a…