Space – Page 70 of 88

‘Farewell, Rosetta’: Europe’s mission to a comet ends with a bittersweet bang

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe today descended to a mission-ending impact on the comet that it followed for more than two… Read More

A virtual marketplace for a future Moon Village? The FAA just might make it happen

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – If the world wants to create a village on the moon, the Federal Aviation Administration is willing to… Read More

Reality check: Elon Musk’s Mars plan will cost more, take longer. What else is new?

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In order to make the figures work for Elon Musk’s plan to put settlers on Mars, SpaceX will… Read More

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A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet

Colonies on Mars are no longer restricted to the pages of sci-fi classics and the imagination of ambitious space geeks. These settlements… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk makes the big pitch for his decades-long plan to colonize Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made some ambitious sales pitches in his career, but today’s big reveal about his… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sets its sights on trips to Mars and the moon

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX isn’t the only billionaire-backed company that’s planning to go to Mars: Blue Origin, the space venture created… Read More

Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket aces wind tunnel tests

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket isn’t due to go into orbit until later this decade, but its design has already… Read More

Hubble readings firm up evidence for plumes of water at Jupiter’s moon Europa

It’s not aliens. And it’s not exactly surprising, despite NASA’s advance billing. But new evidence of water plumes emanating from… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweets sneak peeks at interplanetary transport system for Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In advance of this week’s big reveal, SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is dropping hints about the scale… Read More

India’s PSLV rocket sends BlackSky Global’s first Earth-watching Pathfinder satellite into orbit

A satellite that’s meant to blaze a trail for Seattle-based BlackSky Global’s Earth-imaging constellation rose into orbit tonight atop India’s four-stage PSLV-C35 rocket.… Read More

How deep does Pluto’s ocean go? Would you believe nine times deeper than Earth’s?

Scientists have been saying for months that Pluto could have a salty, sloshing ocean beneath its icy surface, but now… Read More

SpaceX says probe into Falcon 9 launch pad blast points to helium system leak

SpaceX says an investigation into the launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload has… Read More

Balloons rise up on the strato-frontier

Drones, satellites and rocket planes are all well and good for high-flying missions, but sometimes the best craft for the job… Read More

Internal email: Paul Allen’s top space exec Chuck Beames leaving Vulcan Aerospace

Aerospace veteran Chuck Beames is leaving his post as president of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s spaceflight company, Vulcan Aerospace. Word… Read More

Stephen Hawking tours five favorite places in the universe in CuriosityStream video

You’d think that physicist Stephen Hawking’s favorite place on Earth would be his native England, but it’s actually someplace completely… Read More

How to geek out with Neil deGrasse Tyson, on stage, on screen or with a book

Few people can geek out to a movie harder than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, but he met his match when… Read More

NASA says pictures from Hubble reveal ‘surprising’ hints of Europa’s hidden ocean

NASA is gearing up to unveil “surprising evidence” of activity that may be related to the presence of a watery… Read More

Astronomers round up the unusual suspects for ‘alien megastructure’ star

That mysterious “alien megastructure” star is still a mystery, but the most plausible explanations appear to be dense patches of… Read More

For Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos gets Heinlein Prize and a sword – then gives away $250K

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos received one of the spaceflight community’s richest honors, the Heinlein Prize, during a ceremony in the… Read More

First map from Europe’s Gaia satellite charts a billion stars in our Milky Way

The team behind the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has released its first catalog of more than a billion stars in… Read More

How Pluto’s methane turned into red ‘spray paint’ on its biggest moon Charon

When NASA’s New Horizons probe sent back pictures of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, researchers were surprised to see a big… Read More

Rock-star astronaut Chris Hadfield helps kids face fears with ‘Darkest Dark’ book

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield says he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a kid – but he had… Read More

Museum of Flight teams up with Microsoft for virtual reality tours of historic airplanes

It’s not easy to crawl through the guts of a World War II bomber, but a new virtual reality project… Read More

We’re go for liftoff: Commercial Spaceflight Federation sets a new course in Seattle

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation set the stage for new leadership as well as new initiatives during its meeting in Seattle this… Read More

NASA launches OSIRIS-REx probe on a mission to bring back bits of an asteroid

NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx probe today on America’s first mission to snag samples from a near-Earth asteroid and bring them back to Earth – and… Read More

SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity and WhiteKnightTwo

Virgin Galactic’s new SpaceShipTwo gets off the ground, two years after fatal mishap

Virgin Galactic sent its second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, into the air for the first time today – tucked securely… Read More

Jeff Bezos says next Blue Origin spaceship test should destroy the booster rocket

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has flown the same rocket booster to outer space… Read More

‘Star Trek’ at 50: How a space saga inspired a generation of scientists, engineers and writers

Fifty years after “Star Trek” made its debut, the science-fiction saga’s biggest legacy may well be its inspirational impact on millions of scientists… Read More

Facebook beams its ‘like’ options into the Star Trek universe for science-fiction fans

Do you love “Live Long and Prosper”? Then you’ll probably be reacting to Facebook posts with Star Trek icons today. The… Read More

Oh, that kiss! How ‘Star Trek’ voyaged into controversial social and political frontiers

Fifty years ago, “Star Trek” pushed the frontiers of technology with 23rd-century smartphones – also known as communicators – but the… Read More