ScienceSpaceflight NASA Rover Reaches Promising Place to Search for Fossilised Life on Mars While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Sean McMahon, The Conversation Published April 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Launches Solar Sail to Test Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel The mission rode aboard Rocket Lab's Electron, reusing one of the rocket's boosters for the first time. By Passant Rabie Updated April 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense After Months of Transmitting Gibberish JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission. By Passant Rabie Published April 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Russian Space Junk Came Alarmingly Close to Smashing Into NASA Satellite The two satellites came to within less than 30 feet of each other back in February, a distance far closer than initial estimates suggested. By Passant Rabie Published April 22, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Space Company Aims to Deliver Critical Supplies to Any Location in 90 Minutes Sierra Space's Ghost delivery platform is now in beta testing. By George Dvorsky Published April 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Set to Launch Solar Sail for Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel The Solar Sail mission will launch on April 23 on board Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle. By Passant Rabie Published April 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ‘An Exciting Challenge’: NASA Plans Rare Repair Spacewalk to Fix Busted Telescope The space agency has been carrying out tests to make sure the repair work is safe for the ISS astronauts. By Passant Rabie Published April 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight How Early Scientists Envisioned Life Beyond Earth The shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric worldview during the scientific revolution influenced our perception of life beyond Earth. Philip C. Almond, The Conversation Updated April 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Mutated Strains of Unknown Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found Lurking on ISS It’s not clear how the space bacteria may affect the health of astronauts on the ISS—or humans back down on Earth. By Passant Rabie Published April 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight This Advanced Quake Detector Will Land on the Moon With Artemis Astronauts Moonquakes were first detected on the Moon's near side during the Apollo era, but there's little information on the tremors taking place at the south pole. By Passant Rabie Updated April 17, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Piece of ISS Battery Pallet Crashed Through Florida Home, NASA Confirms The space agency jettisoned a large pallet of old batteries, intending for them to burn up in Earth's atmosphere, but a small fragment survived the journey. By Passant Rabie Updated April 16, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Asks for Help in Bringing Back Mars Samples After Mission Becomes Too Expensive The ambitious Mars Sample Return project is on hold due to escalating costs and an unrealistic timeline. By Passant Rabie Published April 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Space Junk Hunters Close in on Spent Rocket Stage From 2009 Mission Astroscale's satellite parked itself next to an old rocket, aiming to capture the wayward junk and fling it towards a fiery death. By Passant Rabie Published April 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight The Space Force Is About to Play Space Wars in Earth Orbit The military branch is testing its ability to respond to a threat by launching two spacecraft to chase after each other. By Passant Rabie Published April 12, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Long-Awaited Ariane 6 Rocket Faces Tough Odds in First Launch Ariane 6 is key to Europe's space ambition, but the program has suffered a series of technical hiccups. By Passant Rabie Published April 12, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight You Can Now Play as an Astronaut on the Moon in Fortnite In Lunar Horizons, your mission is to find and collect resources to build a habitat on the south pole. By Passant Rabie Published April 12, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Russia’s First Post-Cold War Rocket Lifts Off from Remote Eastern Launch Site Angara A5, Russia’s largest operational rocket, took flight from the Vostochny Cosmodrome earlier today. By George Dvorsky Updated April 11, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight U.S. Will Put a Japanese Astronaut on the Moon in Historic First NASA's upcoming Artemis missions will include an astronaut from Japan as part of an agreement between the two nations. By Passant Rabie Published April 10, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Captures Fuzzy Glimpse of Separate Spacecraft Around the Moon A pair of lunar spacecraft zipped past each other as they traveled in nearly parallel orbits. By Passant Rabie Published April 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ULA Successfully Launches Its ‘Most Metal’ Rocket for the Last Time ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket—famous for setting itself ablaze at liftoff—performed its final flight on Tuesday at 12:53 p.m. ET. By Passant Rabie Updated April 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
