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For the First Time Ever a Piece of Asteroid Landed in the U.S. Instead of Crashing
25 Sep 2023, 05:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA managed to safely bring down a capsule containing a sample of asteroid Bennu, the work on unlocking its secrets has only just begun
NASA's LRO Snaps Mosaic of Lunar Crater Deeper Than the Grand Canyon
24 Sep 2023, 05:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At some point in the distant past, an assuredly vast piece of unknown space debris impacted the Moon at the modern-day site of Shackleton Crater. U
Elon Musk's SpaceX Lost 200 Starlink Satellites in Two Months, and Nobody Knows Why
21 Sep 2023, 15:42 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / SpaceX lost 212 Starlink satellites in unknown conditions in the period spanning July 18 and September 18, satellite tracking data shows
This Black Dot Is a Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth, It Comes in a Spaceship
21 Sep 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a few days are left until the OSIRIS-REx spaceship drops a capsule containing an asteroid sample, Europeans snatch it on film as it approaches
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Drag Races Through Coronal Explosion, Lives to Collect Data
20 Sep 2023, 16:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A careful study of the data the Parker Solar Probe collected during the incident seems to comport with a research paper published in 2003.
America Is Getting an Asteroid Delivery From Space, Here's Where to Watch
19 Sep 2023, 05:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Sunday, September 24, the OSIRIS-REx mission ends with a capsule containing a piece of an asteroid landing in the Utah desert
Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?
18 Sep 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It might be difficult not to write off Pulsar Fusion's operation as little more than weapons-grade ambition. But their founder and CEO seems dead set.
JWST Detects Molecule on Exoplanet That’s Only Made by Life, Is It the Smoking Gun?
18 Sep 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By non-astrophysicist standards, K2-18 b is a peculiar exoplanet. One roughly 8.6 times the size of Earth by the latest measurements.
SpaceX Cold Starts Vacuum-Ready Raptor Engine Meant for Starship Moon Lander
15 Sep 2023, 06:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA confirmed that last month SpaceX performed a cold start firing test for the Raptor engine that'll go into the Starship lunar lander
NASA Finishes Oxygen Production Experiment on the Surface of Mars: No, It’s Not Alchemy
14 Sep 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of course, 122 grams of oxygen might not sound like anything impressive. But before you downplay the scale of the achievement, consider this.
Repurposed Space Shuttle RS-25 Engines to Fly Alongside New Ones on Artemis II Rocket
14 Sep 2023, 07:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it installed the first of four RS-25 engines on the Space Launch System destined for the Artemis II Moon mission.
American Hero Sets New Record for Most Consecutive Days in Space on His First Mission
13 Sep 2023, 06:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American astronaut Frank Rubio will have spent a total of 371 consecutive days on the ISS upon his return later this month, a new NASA record
FAA Wraps Up SpaceX Starship Explosion Investigation, Demands Corrections Are Made
10 Sep 2023, 20:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In their report, the FAA cited several different factors that directly contributed to the first test-worthy Starship vehicle to turn into a fireworks display.
Martin Marietta's Spacemaster Shuttle Concept Was Bonkers, Comes to Life on YouTube
8 Sep 2023, 20:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Martin Marietta had every intention of building a fleet of Spacemaster orbiters had the program gotten the green light from NASA over other companies.
NASA's LRO Spots Crater Where Russia's Luna 25 Probe Went Splat
2 Sep 2023, 17:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Using impact-site coordinates published by Roscosmos themselves, NASA's LRO could pinpoint and precisely pinpoint the location of Russia's doomed lunar probe.
Countdown Begins for Unprecedented Asteroid Sample Landing in the Utah Desert
31 Aug 2023, 08:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-Rex spaceship is now less than a month away from Earth, it will deliver samples of a 4.5 billion years old asteroid on September 24
People Going to Space on Next Virgin Galactic Flight Paid for Tickets in 2005
31 Aug 2023, 06:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space company Virgin Galactic expects to conduct its third spaceflight in early September, people on board have been waiting for 19 years to take the trip
NASA to Fit Lasers on the Space Station, They're Not for Fighting Aliens
30 Aug 2023, 08:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal mission will depart in November to prove laser comms are better than radio
India Beats Russia to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3 Probe Lands at the Lunar South Pole
23 Aug 2023, 14:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Chandrayaan-3 probe was launched out of Satish Dhawan Space Centre off the Bay of Bengal on Jul 14th of this year and had been scouting since Aug 5th.
First Look at Moon Space Station's Habitation Module Has Serious "The Expanse" Vibes
23 Aug 2023, 08:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA shares a rendering of the International Habitat (I-Hab) module of the lunar space station Gateway, the work of the European Space Agency