NASA funds spherical ‘Aerobots’ that could explore the caves of Saturn’s moon Titan
Spherical “Aerobots” may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says…
U.S. Space Force and Japan complete QZSS hosted-payload launches to strengthen monitoring of geosynchronous orbit over Indo-Pacific
The U.S. Space Force and Japan have completed the second and final launch under their Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted…
On this day in space! Aug. 16, 1963: Wingless M2-F1 completes 1st glide flight
On Aug. 16, 1963, NASA’s M2-F1 aircraft prototype made its first glide flight. This wingless aircraft kind of…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
Astronomers find water in the harsh environment near the Milky Way’s black hole — Space photo of the week
A view of the Milky Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F.…
Ancient Egypt Will Soon Host The Century’s Longest Total Solar Eclipse
Topline Ancient Egypt’s former capital is about to become ground zero for the world’s eclipse chasers. On Aug.…
AustralianSuper still wary of Musk’s SpaceX months after listing
AustralianSuper has taken a small stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the country’s biggest pension fund wary of…
Starship’s 33 engines push down with 74,400 kilonewtons at liftoff — roughly twice the force of the Saturn V that sent humans to the Moon, yet the whole vehicle is designed to be caught like a falling pencil and flown again the next day
At the moment of liftoff, SpaceX’s Starship pushes off the launch pad with approximately 74.4 million newtons of…
New record! SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart
SpaceX keeps setting spaceflight records. Elon Musk‘s company launches far more frequently than any other outfit, and it…
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has a Massive Competitive Advantage in AI That Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Can’t Touch
One thing that stood out in Space Exploration Technologies’ (NASDAQ: SPCX) first quarterly earnings report as a publicly…
Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chapter of Mars’s history.
China’s Zhurong rover crossed a thin layer of flat, hydrated rocks in southern Utopia Planitia. New analysis argues…
The Sun Doesn’t Care About Your Flight Schedule
I’ve spent enough hours in the cockpit of single engine aircraft to have a healthy respect for weather.…