In Pursuit of Precision: Remembering John Barker
By Laura E.P. Rocchio John L. Barker, a seminal force behind Landsat’s science-grade data, died on Monday, July 6, 2026. He was…
Contractor who built Colossus and Colossus II says Elon Musk owes him colossal amount of money
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A mechanical contractor who helped build Elon Musk’s Memphis-area data centers at breakneck speed…
Enceladus hides a salty ocean beneath its ice but also blasts that ocean directly into space, which means a spacecraft can test water from a potentially habitable sea simply by flying through the plume — no landing, drilling, or journey through kilometres of frozen crust required.
Most ocean worlds present the same brutal engineering problem. The water may be scientifically irresistible, but it is…
In 2031, a JAXA capsule is due to land in the Australian desert carrying more than ten grams of dust collected from Phobos. Mixed into that dust may be fragments blasted off ancient Mars—material that could preserve organic chemistry, or perhaps even traces of hypothetical Martian life from billions of years ago.
If the schedule holds, a small Japanese capsule will cross the Australian sky in the 2031 fiscal year…
On this day in space! July 31, 1971: Apollo 15 astronauts drive on the moon for 1st time
On July 31, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts drove on the moon for the first time. David Scott, the…
In a first, ‘super-Earth’ rocky exoplanet may have an atmosphere
Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could…
SpaceX veteran on how rocket tech could solve Earth’s water crisis
Spacecraft have to survive launch, operate flawlessly in orbit, and return safely to Earth. Jonathan Criss spent over…
Interstellar Travel: The Space Age and Nuclear Rockets
The Universe is unfathomably huge, with over 2 trillion galaxies in an “observable” volume measuring 93 billion light-years…
Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an…
New Observations Reveal the Staggering Scale of the Universe’s Largest Galaxy
As new observations reveal the outer edges of IC 1101 for the first time, scientists have confirmed it…
Never-before-seen picture of Milky Way galaxy released
Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a photo of Milky Way galaxy he captured during his latest…
Elon Musk’s fortune slumps to pre-SpaceX IPO levels after rout
SpaceX pulled off a successful launch last Friday evening at its Starbase facility in South Texas, sending its Starship rocket…