LITTLETON, Colorado — A university-led lunar orbiter designed to pinpoint the location of ice or liquid water trapped in rocks on the moon’s surface is nearly ready for takeoff. The…
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En route to Jupiter, Europa Clipper captures images of stars
An artist’s concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Three months after its launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion…
Blue Origin to launch New Shepard moon-gravity mission on Feb. 4 after glitch
Blue Origin is now targeting Tuesday (Feb. 4) for its first-ever moon-gravity mission. The company first tried to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan.…
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
Credit: CC0 Public Domain We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the…
Japan launches a navigation satellite on a new flagship rocket for an improved positioning system
The H3 Launch Vehicle No. 5, carrying the Quasi-Zenith Satellite “Michibiki No. 6,” lifts off at a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, Sunday Feb. 2,…
SpaceX launching 21 Starlink satellites from Florida on Feb. 3
SpaceX is set to launch another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast early Monday morning (Feb. 3) A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink spacecraft, including…
What we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow-up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4,…
‘Star Trek: Section 31”s costume design was literally ‘Star Trek by Balenciaga’ (interview)
Hairstyles and makeup choices for a hardcore Empress of the Terran Empire ducking her duties in Starfleet’s under-the-radar black ops espionage division Section 31 to run a space disco and…
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. Credit: NASA via…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter’s moon Io
Even for Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one…
