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In Video of Elon Musk Playing Diablo IV, Background Gives Away Wild Details About Starship (Image Credit: futurism-com) During SpaceX’s dramatic fifth orbital test flight of its heavy-lift Starship spacecraft on October 13, the Elon Musk-led space company came closer to disaster than we knew at the time. And we only know it now because, […]
NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret (Image Credit: futurism-com) In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth as part of its Artemis I mission, setting the stage for the first human lunar landing in over half a century several years from now. But Orion’s fiery […]
Newfound dead star spins record-breaking 716 times a second, explodes with thermonuclear blasts (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have discovered a “dead star” neutron star is spinning at an incredible 716 times a second, making it the joint fastest-spinning cosmic body ever seen. Not only this, but the neutron star’s surface is also erupting with explosions […]
This Final Venus Flyby Will Propel Parker Probe Toward a Record-Breaking Encounter With the Sun (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its seventh and final flyby of Venus tomorrow, capitalizing on our next-door-neighbor’s gravitational pull to fling the probe back towards the Sun. When the probe gets to the Sun, it will […]
Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance (Image Credit: Mashable) Earth is a profoundly isolated rock. The European Space Agency’s Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set against the black ether of space. The two objects gradually shrink as Hera journeyed from […]
Sharp ‘lobster vision:’ China’s Einstein Probe space telescope already making discoveries during commissioning phase (Image Credit: Space.com) A Chinese X-ray space telescope has already made several discoveries during its initial commissioning phase. The Einstein Probe, featuring lobster-eye optics and European participation, launched on Jan. 9 aboard a Chinese Long March 2C rocket. The spacecraft has […]
SpaceX launched nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) tonight (Nov. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida today at 9:29 p.m. EST (0129 GMT on Tuesday, Nov. 5), kicking off SpaceX‘s 31st robotic resupply mission to the […]
The space station will receive a new shipment of supplies this morning (Nov. 5), and you can watch the event live. A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft laden with 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of food, equipment and experiments will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) today around 10:15 a.m. EST (1415 GMT), if all goes […]
Japan, Poland to join U.S. military satellite network (Image Credit: Space News) WASHINGTON — Japan and Poland are set to gain access to the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite network, marking a strategic expansion of the system that currently supports the United States and several other partner nations. Officials said […]
NASA’s 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth’s atmosphere (Image Credit: Space.com) 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 on Friday (Nov. 1), the agency announced. NASA […]
