What would a “simplified” Starship plan for the Moon actually look like?
Using an optimized, expendable Starship might reduce the number of tanker missions required by up to 50 percent.…
Stirling engine taps the cold of space to generate power at night
Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have built a small device that produces mechanical power at night…
Auroras fill skies in North America as the geomagnetic storm arrives
Northern lights, auroras seen as far south as Texas and Florida The powerful geomagnetic storm hit Earth’s atmosphere…
The ‘Orbital Aircraft Carrier’ Sounds Like the Ultimate Weapon
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Space Force is funding Gravitics ($60M via SpaceWERX) to prototype an…
Scientists find a surprising twist in Earth’s magnetic field
Scientists studying Earth’s magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat flows in the opposite direction from what…
Asteroids and space junk could be captured in TransAstra’s giant inflatable bag
Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them,…
Storm Seen Erupting on Another Sun, And It’s a Monster : ScienceAlert
Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first…
Light pollution is washing out the night sky. A remote telescope farm helps stargazers bring the cosmos to their screens.
By day, a row of plain-looking sheds in sleepy Rockwood, Texas, looks like nothing more than a place…
What’s this about the intergalactic 3I/Atlas, Earth and December? Here’s what we know
For four months, social media has drawn skywatchers and lovers of galactic lure to a speck spotted in…
PBS documentary looks at 25 years of the challenges of surviving in space on the ISS : NPR
This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks…
‘Elon needs to take this into account for the future’
A man vacationing in the Turks and Caicos Islands recently stumbled upon what he says are fragments from…
NASA has a broken giant antenna needed for talking to spacecraft
Equipment failures in NASA‘s Deep Space Network have disrupted spacecraft communications and stalled near-Earth asteroid studies for nearly…