Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As Elon Musk tries to sweep his Mars ambitions…
China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test
A Chinese Long March 10 booster, powered by seven kerosene-fueled YF-100K engines, lifts off from the Wenchang Space…
NASA Completes First Flight of Laminar Flow Scaled Wing Design
NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs for future commercial aircraft. The flight took…
Watch Vulcan Centaur rocket launch ‘neighborhood watch’ satellites for the US military early on Feb. 12
Rocket Launch: Vulcan USSF-87 – YouTube Watch On A Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch a pair of space…
For $40, you can name a star for your Valentine. But it won’t mean much
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, romance is in the air. And what could be more romantic than…
Scottish rocket startup nears collapse despite £26m in taxpayer loans | Aerospace industry
A British space company hoping to launch the first homegrown rocket from Scotland is on the brink of…
Hubble Space Telescope captures the stunning final breaths of a dying star
It’s the final act for a star in the constellation Cygnus, some 1,000 light-years away. But this star…
China aces test of next-gen lunar capsule and rocket in effort to land humans on moon before NASA (video)
China just took another step toward landing astronauts on the moon. On Wednesday (Feb. 11) local time, the…
Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery?
In 1966, the Soviet Union made history when its Luna 9 mission placed the first object built by…
Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it’s not a big deal, CEO says.
A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department…
At 18, he succeeds where NASA failed, independently discovering millions of unknown objects at home
What did an 18-year-old spot in plain sight that a fleet of experts missed for years? The most…
Asteroid samples NASA brought to Earth suggest life’s building blocks may be widespread in the universe
The origins of the building blocks of life may be even more widespread than we realized, as per…