Tag: Space
Asteroid-miners to launch world’s 1st autonomous mission
AstroForge plans to make spaceflight history next year.
The California-based asteroid-mining company has booked its Autonomy-1 mission on the firs [...]
Webb helps detect the most distant FRB
Astronomers have discovered the most distant Fast Radio Burst (FRB) ever detected. Not only could this help untangle the mystery of what causes these [...]
Black holes ‘kill’ galaxies with plasma jets as weapons
Scientists have discovered how jets launched by supermassive black holes can determine how their host galaxies "die." The research answers the long-s [...]
SpaceX launches largest rocket ever and Starship into orbit
Starship just went where it had never gone before.
SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy megarocket, the biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever [...]
Pikachu goes to space!
Pikachu is one of Earth's newest outer space ambassadors, thanks to a new partnership where the ESA-Pokémon partnership sends the electric mouse to t [...]
Germany reaches orbit from European soil
No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil, until this Saturday.
The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket f [...]
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope soars to the stars
A new era of astronomy is about to begin after NASA's newest flagship observatory leaped from the terrestrial bounds of Earth into the vastness of sp [...]
SpaceX announces $100 billion Starbase launch site
A new spaceport will bring 10 launch pads to Louisiana's Gulf Coast and support thousands of Starship launches per year.
SpaceX and Louisiana [...]
NASA to use ‘Aerobots’ to explore caves of Titan
Spherical "Aerobots" may one day swarm the caves of Titan, the moon of Saturn that NASA says is one of the most Earthlike in our solar system.
Tit [...]
Is empty space really empty?
Empty space is not as empty as it looks.
That is the takeaway of a new study examining signals from a dead star, offering what researchers sa [...]