NASA unveils first new wind tunnel in over 80 years
HAMPTON, Virginia – NASA opened its first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years Friday, marking…
AI is ready to run spacecraft. Is the space industry ready for it? (op-ed)
Martin Halliwell is a Partner at NewSpace Capital, one of the world’s first private equity firms devoted exclusively…
After Skyroot’s Big Win, Indian Space Startups Bag $871 Million Funding
New Delhi: On July 18, a seven-storey rocket lifted off from Sriharikota. Vikram-1 climbed into a 450 km…
The tiny helicopter Nasa built to survive 30 days on Mars ended up flying for nearly three years – The Times of India
The tiny helicopter Nasa built to survive 30 days on Mars ended up flying for nearly three years The…
We have sharper maps of Mars than of most of Earth’s deep ocean floor, and the little of it we have reached rewrote biology: in 1977 a submersible found thriving life around hot vents in total darkness, fed by chemistry rather than sunlight
The least-known place on Earth is not some remote patch of desert or ice. It is most of…
NASA Urges U.S. Public To Watch Aug. 12’s Total Solar Eclipse
Two years after April 8, 2024’s North American eclipse, NASA is once again preparing to broadcast one of…
See The First Perseids As Solar Eclipse Nears: The Night Sky This Week
Topline August begins with a comet getting close to the sun, but for most skywatchers it will be…
Chinese scientists reveal most effective way to destroy doomsday asteroid
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Starwatch: Mercury to reach farthest point from the sun | Astronomy
This week offers one of the better opportunities of the year to catch a glimpse of the solar…
Giant waves are sweeping Mars’ atmosphere into space
The Sun continuously sends a fast stream of charged particles through space, a phenomenon known as the solar…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching on a Falcon Heavy on 30 August 2026, carries a mirror the size of Hubble’s but sees a patch of sky about a hundred times wider, built mainly to map dark energy and hunt for planets
NASA’s next great observatory is finished, fuelled and nearly ready to fly. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
From Hardspace to Clearspace: How space salvage games compare to real debris removal
While Hardspace: Shipbreaker does an excellent job of capturing the dystopian perils of unchecked hypercapitalism, the real fun…