University of Canterbury’s space lab ready for lift-off
Associate Professor Sarah Kessans with protein crystallisation experiments sent to the International Space Station in 2024. Photo: Claire…
Scientists propose lunar lasers inside shadowed moon craters
Scientists have proposed placing an ultrastable laser system inside permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s south pole, where…
Vast announces line of high-power satellite buses
WASHINGTON — Commercial space station developer Vast is moving into satellite manufacturing with a line of high-power satellite…
NLR Battery Innovation Awarded NASA’s Invention of the Year
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. To Shoot for the Moon, Lab Researchers Must…
Farming in Ancient Lake Agassiz
Editor’s Note: Today’s story is the answer to the May Puzzler.About 15,000 years ago, southeastern Manitoba sat beneath…
Chinese Orbiter Crushes Starlink With a Tiny 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 KM Above Earth
The laser did not arrive clean. It had fallen through 36,000 kilometers of heaving sky above southwestern China,…
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth at a gravitational balance point so precarious it has to fire its thrusters every three weeks just to stay there, and when its fuel runs out around 2040 it will drift away forever with no possibility of refueling or rescue.
The James Webb Space Telescope sits roughly 1 million miles from Earth at a gravitational sweet spot called…
NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid
In addition to the imager, early calibration measurements made by Psyche’s magnetometers may have detected Mars’ bow shock…
Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision
Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…
“I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
But what about spacecraft flying on more well-trodden paths to the Moon, Mars, Venus, or the asteroid belt?…
Johnson’s Cindy Evans Prepares Artemis Teams for Lunar Science
NASA’s Artemis II crew had many technical and operational responsibilities during their historic mission to the Moon, but…
Worker dies at SpaceX’s Starbase in leadup to Starship V3 megarocket launch
A worker died at SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the company…