What does it take to call home from the Moon?
For most of human spaceflight history, the go to for communications has been radio waves, a technology that…
How do you study something you can never step outside of?
Studying the thing you can never step outside of and look back at is the fundamental problem facing…
Elon Musk Will Earn a Company Bonus if He Drops a Million Colonists on Mars
Elon Musk now has another reason to colonize Mars besides appealing to his massive ego. Board members of…
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch seen from space (satellite photos)
One of BlackSky’s Gen-3 Earth-observing satellites captured this photo of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launching on April…
Science news: Universe may end ‘trillions of years sooner than expected’, scientists warn
Scientists have calculated our universe may meet a violent end “trillions of years sooner than expected”. New studies…
Discovery renews confirmation that Mars had the “chemistry for life”
Mars has always looked like a harsh, lifeless place. Dust storms sweep across it, and radiation hits the…
Seeing an eclipse from Earth is awe-inspiring – for astronauts seeing one from space, the scene was even more grand
The astronauts on Artemis II’s trip to the Moon in April 2026 didn’t just have an amazing journey…
ESA – The great parachute bake-out
Carefully wrapped inside this donut-shaped bag is a 35-m diameter parachute about to be baked inside a specialised…
Space news: Date set for British-made rover to land on Mars in search of life on Red Planet
The UK Space Agency has set a date for a for British-made rover to land on Mars in…
NASA nuclear engineer latest in list of missing or dead scientists, adding to troubling trend
Other prominent names on the list of those dead include NASA Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who was murdered on…