NASA selects 41 space technologies for future Moon and Mars exploration
NASA has chosen 41 technology proposals from 37 American companies to help develop the capabilities needed for future…
Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth
Astronomers have directly confirmed four previously hidden white dwarf stars in nearby binary systems. Every system lies within…
Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth
Astronomers have directly confirmed four previously hidden white dwarf stars in nearby binary systems. Every system lies within…
Spain’s Pangea Propulsion Opens New Manufacturing Facility
Credit: Pangea Propulsion Pangea Propulsion has inaugurated a new 1,000-square-metre manufacturing facility in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona,…
China used a giant net to land a reusable rocket. Does the idea have legs?
China’s successful recovery of a reusable rocket has sparked debate among aerospace experts over whether its unconventional approach…
Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter
From a distance, Europa looks like a frozen world. Its surface is a pale shell crossed by rust-coloured…
Life at Davis Station: 24 minutes of sun after six weeks of darkness
By Ashlee Aldridge and Goulburn Murray For six weeks, the sun did not rise above the horizon at…
The U.S. Cleared a Giant Space Mirror to Shine Sunlight After Dark and Turn Night into Day
Credit: FCC/Reflect Orbital The night sky may soon acquire a switch. A California startup plans to send an…
Astronomers are Hunting Down the Elusive Population III Stars
It’s hard hunting down the oldest stars in the universe. These behemoths, known as Population (or Pop) III…
Saturn’s Largest Moon May Hold the Resources for a Space Colony
Artist’s rendering of Titan’s interior, with the Cassini spacecraft in orbit and Saturn in the distance. Credit: NASA…
Astronauts Have Taken The First Human X‑Rays in Space : ScienceAlert
For more than 65 years, humans have been soaring through space. Since the first spaceflight by cosmonaut Yuri…
Life at Davis Station: 24 minutes of sun after six weeks of darkness
For six weeks, the Sun did not rise above the horizon at Australia’s southernmost Antarctic research station. The…