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China planning to build its own version of SpaceX’s Starship
SpaceX continues to be a font of inspiration for Chinese aerospace engineers. At least one Chinese company is already working to create its own version of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9,…
Moon RACER: Intuitive Machines takes lunar rover out for debut drive
HOUSTON — Intuitive Machines’ lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) is not your grandfather’s moon buggy (assuming your grandfather was an Apollo astronaut). The company’s Moon RACER, or Reusable Autonomous Crewed Exploration…
SpaceX targeting Nov. 18 for next Starship megarocket launch
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly for the sixth time ever less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk’s company announced today (Nov. 6) that…
Design an interstellar ‘generation ship’ to spend decades among the stars with Hyperion Project competition
Human technology has allowed us to extend the scope of our curiosity beyond the confines of our home world and into the solar system. But it’s not hard to imagine…
NASA’s 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
NASA’s venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as expected…
Explore a long-lost Starfleet ghost ship in new ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ comic (exclusive)
Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Lower Decks” has been an unmitigated success as a riotous take on the lives of the unsung junior members of the crew of the USS Cerritos, and…
Watch SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts move Crew Dragon spacecraft to new ISS parking spot on Nov. 3
Four astronauts will relocate a SpaceX spacecraft at the space station on Sunday (Nov. 3), and you can watch the event live. The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members…
Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and ‘birth atoms’
Astronomers have witnessed the titanic collision between two neutron stars that resulted in the birth of the smallest black hole ever seen and forged precious metals like gold, silver, and…
Earth sure looks spooky in these ‘hyperspectral’ images from Europe’s Hera asteroid probe
A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its…
