Ingenuity clocks up 30 minutes flying in the Martian skies NASA has revealed that Ingenuity – the experimental helicopter sent to Mars with the Perseverance Rover – has clocked up a whole half-hour of flight in the red planet's meanly thin atmospher…
Lees meerModern analytical techniques suggest the natural satellite cooled much faster than previously thought Humans haven't been on the Moon for 49 years but samples they took continue to provide new discoveries.…
Lees meerParker solar probe partly determines where Sol ends and begins NASA's Parker solar probe has become the first spacecraft to reach the Sun, after solar boffins announced the feat at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.…
Lees meerNobody wants to see Rosalind Franklin scattered over Oxia Planum The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has successfully completed a high-altitude drop test.…
Lees meerYou can still get a badge if you go now The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is ending its Commercial Space Astronaut Wings programme, citing waning exclusivity.…
Lees meerA space thing running late? Who would have thought it? Delays are a way of life for the space community, and the European Space Agency (ESA) has flown past its latest deadline for replying to astronaut applicants.…
Lees meerImaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer's two year mission will check out polarization of black holes, neutrons and other celestial objects In the wee hours of Thursday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer …
Lees meerOrbit roughly 100 times wider than that of similar planets in our solar system Scientists have discovered a gas giant planet 10 times the size of Jupiter orbiting the binary system of b Centauri A and B.…
Lees meerOrbex is still testing, but aiming for the real thing in 2022 UK rocketeers Orbex have thrown their hat in the ring of Blighty's very own space race by kicking off construction of a Scottish launch platform for its Prime rocket.…
Lees meerThis is fine Those us who fear future enslavement by robot overlords may have one more reason not to sleep at night: engineers have demonstrated a few of the legless, floppy variety making some serious leaps.…
Lees meerThey went full science. Always go full science The Hubble Space Telescope team has triumphed once again and returned the veteran observatory to service.…
Lees meerFingers crossed the telescope will finally take to space on 22 December Engineers have finished pumping the James Webb Space Telescope with fuel, and are now preparing to carefully place the folded instrument inside the top of a rocket, expected to …
Lees meerDespite being the 27th and 28th launched, they're the first of a dozen first-gen birds The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the successful launch of the 27th and 28th satellites in its Galileo satnav constellation on Sunday.…
Lees meerCube-shaped object is probably just a rock. Yutu will check it out anyway China's Moon rover, Yutu 2, has sent images of a strangely geometric object.…
Lees meerThe end is coming, and nobody wants a homeless 'naut NASA has splashed the cash on design contracts for space stations and a multibillion-dollar job for more Artemis boosters.…
Lees meerWe're all ears The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that its Mars Express orbiter has heard from China's Zhurong rover.…
Lees meerSee if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over ESA's Solar Orbiter has completed its flyby of Earth, collecting science data as it did so, and appears to be headed back into deep space without any close encounters with orbiting debris.…
Lees meerComet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun Not only is comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein the largest of its kind known, it’s also one of the most active, distant comets, likely spewing p…
Lees meerBroken antenna will have to wait as warning comes in less than 24 hours before airlock opening NASA has delayed a spacewalk scheduled today from the International Space Station amid concerns about debris.…
Lees meerWork continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out NASA has successfully restored another instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Lees meerXenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords In January of 2020, scientists from the University of Vermont announced they had built the first living robots; this week they have published reports that those r…
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