Category: Space
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…
Webb confirms a longstanding galaxy model
JWST image of the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 628. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Judy Schmidt (CC BY 2.0) Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the…
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…
Chinese space station crew returns after six months in orbit
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A three-person Chinese crew returned to Earth early Monday after more than six months aboard the Tiangong space station, state news agency Xinhua reported. Ye Guangfu,…
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…
Learning more about supernovae through stardust
Pair of presolar grains from the Murchison meteorite. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Energy Most of the diverse elements in the universe come from supernovae. We are, quite literally,…
