War on Earth could spill over to the moon, Chinese space scientists warn
In a rare study, Chinese aerospace researchers have explored how a war could one day spill into the…
NASA’s 1.8-kilogram Ingenuity helicopter flew through Martian air roughly 100 times thinner than Earth’s—its counter-rotating blades spun at about 2,400 revolutions per minute, nearly five times faster than a conventional passenger helicopter’s main rotor, to generate enough lift.
On Earth, a 1.8-kilogram helicopter would be a small machine. On Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity had to become something…
Have scientists discovered a dark matter particle? | Science and Technology
Deep beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, US, in an old gold mine, a tank of liquid…
Scientists have confirmed that a pit in the Moon’s Sea of Tranquillity opens into an underground cave, probably an ancient lava tube. Only tens of metres have been mapped, but separate modelling suggests that lunar gravity could support tubes kilometres wide—natural shelters large enough, in theory, to house entire settlements.
A dark opening in Mare Tranquillitatis has been visible in spacecraft images for years. What lay beyond its…
Classic Moon-formation simulations treated the colliding proto-Earth and Theia as strengthless fluids, typically producing a debris disk that assembled later—but when Southwest Research Institute researchers added temperature-dependent rock strength, one canonical simulation produced an intact Moon in roughly five hours.
For decades, the standard computer version of the Moon’s birth began with a practical simplification. A Mars-sized body…
Isar Aerospace Calls Off 4 September Spectrum Launch Attempt
Credit: Isar Aerospace German launch services provider Isar Aerospace appears to have scrubbed a planned 4 September attempt…
What Could SpaceX (SPCX) Flight 14 Mean For Its Reusable Rocket Push?
Space Exploration Technologies (NasdaqGS: SPCX) is targeting its first orbital Starship mission with Flight 14, marking a shift…
Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says
The United States does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in…
Lunar Occultation of Venus – NASA
On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States—and parts of Canada—enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar…
For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 per cent bound water by mass, locked largely inside hydrated iron and magnesium salts.
Venus’s brilliant cloud deck has been described for almost half a century as concentrated sulphuric-acid droplets suspended in…
The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey Releases the Largest 2-D Map of the Universe
In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of Dark Energy, the…
Blue Origin rocket explosion was roughly as powerful as Chernobyl blast, sent sound waves 1,000 miles across the US
Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes during launch pad test at Cape Canaveral – YouTube Watch On When…