Metasurface grating gives solar telescopes a boost – Physics World
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When the Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into orbit in 1957, the public was told she had survived for days — but decades later it emerged that she had actually died within hours, after Sputnik 2’s cabin overheated
For forty-five years, the world was told the wrong story about the death of a small dog in…
Rebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.
How do you install new software onto a computer you can never touch, hurtling through deep space at…
NASA’s Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a remarkable milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon (26.2…
China’s Spacecraft Reaches the Smallest Object Humans Have Visited
Earth has a stalker. For roughly a century, a tiny asteroid called Kamoʻoalewa has been locked in a…
India Approves High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite to Fill Surveillance Gap
India has approved the acquisition of a fixed-wing High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) capability to strengthen…
Tuesday’s New Moon Sets Up A Total Solar Eclipse In 29 Days
Topline The month’s new moon occurs at 5:43 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 14, but it is no…
NASA reveals absolutely bonkers new Moon rover
As NASA prepares for its next mission to the Moon, it has announced PROMISE – the rover it…
Fans of the Arctic – NASA Science
Editor’s Note: Today’s story is the answer to the July Puzzler. Call it an alluvial face-off. On the southern…
Defense spending lifts Europe’s space economy
TAMPA, Fla. — European government space spending jumped 12% to 13.5 billion euros ($15.4 billion) in 2025, according…
NASA’s Deep Space Network can detect a signal as weak as a billionth of a billionth of a watt from spacecraft billions of kilometres away — using 70-metre dishes to pull a technological whisper out of the noise of space
By the time a spacecraft’s radio signal reaches Earth from the outer Solar System, it is no longer…
SpaceX is gearing up for Starship’s 13th test flight later this week
One reason SpaceX isn’t attempting an orbital flight this week is Starship’s failure to complete one of its…