SpaceX has competition in the form of space startup Rocket Lab, as the firm plans an ambitious Venus mission, develops a rocket that can send humans into space and also launch mega-constellation satellites into orbit. This move comes off the back of a $4.1 billion listing on the Nasdaq exchange […]
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An image sent back to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows the tread tracks left behind by its first drive on Mars on March 4. (NASA / JPL-Caltech) Fifteen years after her death, Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler has joined an exclusive pantheon of space luminaries memorialized on Mars. […]
China has shared a look at the first moon samples to be brought back to Earth in more than 45 years. The lunar regolith was collected by the nation’s Chang’e 5 mission that returned in December with 3.8 pounds of soil and rocks from our natural satellite. The images show […]
The seeds for everything SpaceX has grown into today were planted during the early days of the Falcon 1 program. A fat, red sun sank into the Texas horizon as Elon Musk bounded toward a silvery spaceship. Reaching its concrete landing pad, Musk marveled up at the stainless steel, steampunk […]
NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA’s latest Mars rover landed on the red planet last Thursday. The downside to “watching live” is you can’t get a good view of the action, thanks to the distance between our worlds. Today, NASA released a new video showing the daring landing up close, and you should watch. Then drive Perseverance around your home and visit…
A section of a view from NASA’s Perseverance vagabond reveals its environments in Mars’Jezero Crater The close-range viewpoint is rather manipulated as a result of the view impact. (NASA/ JPL-Caltech) For the very first time ever before, NASA has actually caught video of a vagabond touchdown externally of Mars, plus […]
Home News Science & Astronomy U.S. President Joe Biden gave NASA's acting administrator warm congratulations for the successful landing of the life-seeking Perseverance rover on Mars Thursday (Feb. 18)."Hey Steve, congratulations man," said Biden in a call from the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., backdropped by numerous pictures and a statue of American labor leader…
The failure of the CDC to produce reliable COVID testing kits in a timely fashion, the slow and ineffective rollout of the COVID vaccine, and the Russian cyberattack on government agencies (in spite of multiple GAO reports warning of the risks of just such an attack). All of these seemingly unrelated events reflect the central…