Space – Page 55 of 88

Gravitational wave hubbub hints at LIGO’s first sighting of a neutron star smash-up

Another big announcement about gravitational waves is coming up, and this time the hints point to observations in electromagnetic wavelengths… Read More

SpaceX launches a satellite and lands a Falcon 9 booster for second time this week

Good things came in threes for SpaceX today: For the third time, it used a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket… Read More

VP Mike Pence visits Virgin Galactic and Stratolaunch space ventures in Mojave

Vice President Mike Pence made Mojave, Calif., the latest stop on his nationwide tour of spaceship development sites today, with… Read More

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Trailer makes a splash, and ticket websites avoid a crash

The Force is clearly with “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” The trailer for Episode VIII of the movie saga made… Read More

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ ranks Elon Musk alongside Wright Brothers and warp drive

SpaceX founder Elon Musk hasn’t yet scored a cameo on the Star Trek stage, as fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos did… Read More

SpaceX launches 10 satellites for Iridium, then lands Falcon 9 booster at sea

SpaceX launched its third batch of 10 Iridium Next communications satellites from California today on a Falcon 9 rocket, then… Read More

Hydroplane champ (and rocket engineer) Jimmy Shane gets his day in the sun

Today Jimmy Shane took a little time off from his day job — building spaceships at Blue Origin — to bask in… Read More

World View completes five-day test flight for ‘Stratollite’ high-altitude balloon

World View Enterprises has executed its longest stratospheric balloon flight ever, steering a solar-powered payload through five days’ worth of… Read More

NASA could go back to the future and revive moon base plans from a decade ago

In the wake of the National Space Council’s first meeting, NASA says it has been told to draw up plans… Read More

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Spacewalkers replace a broken hand on International Space Station’s robotic arm

A pair of NASA spacewalkers replaced a faulty gripper on the end of the International Space Station’s Canadian-built robotic arm… Read More

Vice President Mike Pence at National Space Council meeting

National Space Council hears calls for moon trips and stronger space defense

The Trump administration plans to send astronauts and robots back to the moon in as little as five years’ time,… Read More

No-surprise Nobel: LIGO physicists win prize for gravitational wave discoveries

This year’s Nobel Prize for physics is going, unsurprisingly, to three people who represent the hundreds of researchers behind the first… Read More

Spaceflight wins $5.5 million NASA contract for nanosatellite launch services

Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s been awarded its first contract for launch and integration services from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in… Read More

World View launches ‘Stratollite’ balloon from Spaceport Tucson for the first time

World View Enterprises today executed its first balloon liftoff from Spaceport Tucson, the Arizona facility that it expects will be… Read More

Sizing up billionaire Elon Musk’s big bet on SpaceX’s Big Frickin’ Rocket of the future

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s rocket roadmap just got much bigger than Mars. Now the question is, who else will follow… Read More

2018 turns into 2019 for Webb Space Telescope (and maybe Boeing’s space taxi)

NASA says it’s moving the launch date for its $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope from October 2018 to the… Read More

Elon Musk’s updated vision for Mars also shoots for the moon and much, much more

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has added moon missions to his grand plan for Mars, in a bid to capitalize on… Read More

Lockheed Martin adds a lander to its picture for NASA’s future journeys to Mars

Lockheed Martin has fleshed out its picture for sending astronauts to the Red Planet by adding a refuelable lander and… Read More

Northern lights provide a glowing auroral sendoff to Seattle’s summer weather

Seattle’s final fling with hot weather featured a celestial fireworks show on Wednesday night, in the form of an auroral… Read More

Russia gets on board with NASA to look into Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit

The space station band is getting back together again: Russia and NASA today signed a joint statement voicing support for… Read More

Super Bowl? Bah! Study rates total solar eclipse as America’s most watched event

More than 215 million American adults, representing almost 88 percent of the U.S. population over 18, watched August’s solar eclipse… Read More

Europe’s Virgo detector picks up its first gravitational wave and nails down locale

Astronomers have detected their fourth gravitational wave from the merger of two black holes, but this one marks a new… Read More

U.N. puts out a global call for payloads to ride on SNC’s Dream Chaser space plane

Remember those science-fiction movies where the United Nations was calling the shots in space? We may be one small step… Read More

NASA shows off a drive-by snapshot of Earth from OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe

During last week’s flyby, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured a stunning portrait of Earth’s disk, spanning the Pacific from Australia to… Read More

Blue Origin announces satellite launch deal with Thai telecom startup Mu Space

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, announced yet another agreement to launch a telecommunications satellite… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk is setting up his fans for a surprise during Mars mission update

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he’ll unveil “major improvements and some unexpected applications” this week when he updates his plan… Read More

OSIRIS-REx probe buzzes Earth on its way to an asteroid – and earthlings wave back

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took pictures — and had its picture taken — as it zoomed past Earth today on its… Read More

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Orion engineers win a Silver Snoopy and other NASA accolades

REDMOND, Wash. — One of NASA’s most celebrated awards was handed out today, but it didn’t go to an astronaut. Instead,… Read More

Make it so, Alexa: Amazon adds a few new Star Trek skills to AI assistant’s repertoire

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has said the Alexa voice-activated AI assistant was inspired by the talking computer on “Star Trek,”… Read More

One small teraflop: HPE’s supercomputer takes a giant leap on the space station

The most powerful computer ever sent into space proved its mettle this month by registering a processing speed in excess… Read More