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On the same day China landed a probe on the moon, the US's massive telescope...
Summary List PlacementOn Tuesday, the United States and China experienced vastly different events in the world of space exploration and observation.The Arecibo Observatory, a colossal radio telescope...
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Starlink profits are supposed to help SpaceX head to Mars, but the...
Summary List PlacementEvery few weeks, SpaceX deploys dozens of Starlink satellites into orbit, moving ever closer to realizing its planned fleet of thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of the...
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SpaceX plans to race remote-controlled cars on the moon in 2021, and has...
Summary List PlacementSpaceX wants to race remote-controlled cars on the surface of the Moon.Elon Musk's aerospace company plans to launch the vehicles in October 2021 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9...
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Researchers created a 'Google Map' of the universe, with a million newly...
Summary List PlacementAstronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio...
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Elon Musk is 'highly confident' SpaceX's Starship will ferry humans to Mars...
Summary List PlacementSpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday he believes the company could land humans on Mars in 2026 — four years later than he previously hoped.In an interview with Mathias...
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Video from China's rock-collecting spacecraft shows the probe stick its...
Summary List PlacementChina landed a rock-collecting spacecraft on the moon on Tuesday, the latest in a series of ambitious lunar missions.The lander is one of four robots in a mission called...
View Article3 compelling reasons why we haven't found aliens yet
Summary List PlacementFollowing is a transcript of the video.Narrator: Odds are, somewhere among the estimated 100 billion planets in our galaxy, intelligent alien life has taken hold. So the question...
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Alabama rocket startup Aevum just unveiled the world's biggest drone — a...
Summary List PlacementAevum, a quiet, scrappy, and ambitious rocket-launch startup, unveiled the biggest drone in the world on Wednesday.Called Ravn X, the fully autonomous vehicle is 80 feet long, has...
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A colossal rocket-launching drone is just one small part of Aevum's bid to...
Summary List PlacementOn Wednesday, a little-known startup called Aevum rolled out what it claims is, by mass, the world's largest drone.Ravn X is a sleek, black, and fully autonomous unmanned aerial...
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A video shows the 'violent' collapse of the iconic Arecibo telescope. It...
Summary List PlacementThe second-largest radio telescope in the world collapsed on Tuesday morning.The Arecibo Observatory's 900-ton platform, which sent and received radio waves and was suspended 450...
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Photos show what the Arecibo telescope looked like before and after its...
Summary List PlacementThe Arecibo Observatory's enormous radio telescope collapsed on Tuesday morning. Its 900-ton platform crashed into the 1,000-foot-side disk below, yanking down the tops of three...
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NASA is paying a company $1 — spread over 3 installments — to collect rocks...
Summary List PlacementNASA is going to cut a check for 10 cents to a company collecting moon rocks.Colorado start-up Lunar Outpost will collect "a small amount" of material from the surface of the...
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NASA took a photo of China's moon rock-collecting robot on the lunar surface...
Summary List PlacementChina landed a rock-collecting robot on the moon on Tuesday, its latest in a series of ambitious lunar missions. Less than two days later, the spacecraft's ascent module blasted...
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China now holds the world's last giant, single-dish telescope after the...
Summary List PlacementAfter tragedy struck the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, the scientific community mourned the loss of an astronomical landmark.There is now only one last...
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Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin's rocket engine is going to land the first woman...
Summary List PlacementBlue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, revealed that its lunar-landing engine, the BE-7, passed its fourth test successfully on Friday.Blue Origin...
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The Hubble telescope has revealed a 'very dramatic and very weird' fading...
Summary List PlacementAstronomers often study changes that take place over vast stretches of time: Stars, for instance, can take millions of years to form and billions more to die.But a team of...
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SpaceX just won $885 million in federal subsidies to expand Starlink, Elon...
Summary List PlacementOn Monday, SpaceX received some very good news from the Federal Communications Commission: The company has won more than $885 million in federal subsidies for its Starlink...
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In a first, SpaceX has 2 Dragon spaceships docked to the International Space...
Summary List PlacementAfter launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a SpaceX Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Monday.Unlike the Crew Dragon spaceship that flew four...
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New satellite images show the Arecibo Observatory before and after its...
Summary List PlacementThe destruction of Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory has been photographed from space.The telescope collapsed earlier this month, following damaged inflicted by Tropical Storm...
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Gen. Chuck Yeager, 'The Right Stuff' test pilot who broke sound barrier, has...
Summary List PlacementChuck Yeager, the steely "Right Stuff" test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier more than 70 years ago, died...
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