‘I heard gasps’ and ‘oh my God’: Artemis II astronauts…
OTTAWA, ONTARIO — On their record-setting journey around the moon and back, the Artemis II astronauts experienced awe…
🚀 Towards Mars and beyond: a new ion engine 25 times more powerful successfully tested
A new era for space propulsion? An ion engine twenty-five times more powerful than NASA’s current best model…
NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast.…
If you compressed the entire history of the universe into a single year, all of recorded history would fit in the final 14 seconds — and a single human lifetime would last only 0.2 seconds
Carl Sagan used to walk his Cornell students through a thought experiment he called the Cosmic Calendar, and…
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Accepted ‘Lower Revenue Deals’ With Airlines—Here’s Why
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The International Space Station is travelling at 17,500 mph as you read this, and the astronauts inside it are aging measurably slower than you are
The International Space Station is moving at roughly 7.8 kilometres per second relative to the ground beneath it,…
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ eclipse drawcard for city
For the first time, Dunedin will actively advertise its dark side to tourism companies. No, not its colourful…
New moon route cuts fuel costs using hidden gravitational highways
Sending spacecraft to the moon is not just about reaching it — it’s about how little fuel you…
Satellite pollution could soon become a major climate threat
Pollution is not just a problem on Earth anymore. Today, satellites help people watch movies, use GPS, check…
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ eclipse drawcard for city
For the first time, Dunedin will actively advertise its dark side to tourism companies. No, not its colourful…
A hidden layer of microbial life has been found beneath the Atacama Desert, and it may be the closest Earth can get to rehearsing the search for life on Mars
The Atacama Desert has long been useful to planetary scientists for a simple reason: it is not Mars,…
Hidden in the dust: The 2-billion-year-old asteroid crater that holds the secret clue to ending an ice age
Scientists have identified the Yarrabubba impact crater in Western Australia as the Earth’s oldest, dating back 2.229 billion…