Rocket Lab marks milestone with 70th Electron launch
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
Rocket Lab Corporation has achieved its 70th successful Electron mission, underscoring the rocket's status as the world's most frequently launched small orbital vehicle and reinforcing the company's role as a leader in responsive space launch services.
The mission, called "Live, Laugh, Launch," lifted off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand on August 23 at 22:42 UTC. The launch occ Curiosity Captures Mars Landscape While Talking to an Orbiter
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover demonstrated a new multitasking capability when capturing this view: It snapped the 15 images that make up the mosaic while simultaneously communicating with an orbiter. The images were taken by the right navigation camera on Curiosity's mast July 26, 2025, the 4,611th sol, or day, of the mission. The rover's tracks cross through a region filled with boxwork formation Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defense
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying toward an asteroid more than 5 million miles away.
The message prompted the spacecraft to execute a series of pre-programmed commands that caused a small, shoebox-sized satellite contributed by t
NASA's Artemis II lunar science operations to inform future missions
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
NASA's Artemis II mission, set to send four astronauts on a nearly 10-day mission around the Moon and back, will advance the agency's goal to land astronauts at the Moon's south polar region and will help set the stage for future crewed Mars missions.
While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA's Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations
Solar System Internet Achieves Breakthrough DTN Edge Processing Test on Lunar Mission
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
In a milestone for interplanetary communications, Lonestar Data Holdings confirmed the successful test of the Solar System Internet's Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) aboard its lunar data center mission launched on Intuitive Machines' Athena lander in February.
The demonstration validated the use of DTN technology, engineered to maintain robust communications in high-latency space environment Jupiter core mystery not explained by giant planetary impact
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
A new Durham University study challenges the idea that Jupiter's unusual dilute core was formed by a giant collision, overturning a leading explanation of the planet's interior structure.
Jupiter's core does not have a sharp boundary but gradually merges into its hydrogen-rich layers. This dilute core was first revealed by NASA's Juno spacecraft, sparking debate about how it formed. Earlie Fresh twist to mystery of Jupiter's core
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist - as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core.
It had been thought that a colossal collision with an early planet containing half of Jupiter's core material could have mixed up the central region of the gas giant, enough to explain its interior today New Horizons begins record hibernation in Kuiper Belt
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
At 4:12 a.m. EDT on Aug. 7, mission controllers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory confirmed that New Horizons had safely entered hibernation mode. The spacecraft, operating more than 5.7 billion miles (9.2 billion kilometers) from Earth in the Kuiper Belt, acted on commands uploaded July 23. The confirmation signal required 8 hours and 31 minutes to reach Earth, traveling at light spee Using exoplanets to study dark matter
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Now, a UC Riverside study published in Physical Review D suggests that these "exoplanets" could also serve as tools to investigate dark matter.
The researchers examined how dark matter, which makes up 85% of the un
Dark energy black holes align with DESI data to yield realistic neutrino masses
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
Dark energy, once thought constant across time, may instead evolve through the universe, according to new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Researchers show that interpreting black holes as dark energy bubbles not only supports this view but also offers consistent neutrino mass estimates.
The DESI collaboration, working from Kitt Peak National Observatory in Ari Space solar power study outlines potential role in Europes clean energy future
Sunday, 24 August 2025 04:19
Space-based solar power could significantly reshape Europe's energy system by 2050, according to new research in the journal Joule. The study estimates the technology could reduce Europe's reliance on Earth-based wind and solar generation by up to 80% while lowering overall grid costs by 7% to 15%.
Researchers modeled the European energy system in 2050 using two NASA-developed designs for Musk's megarocket faces crucial new test after failures
Saturday, 23 August 2025 22:51
Elon Musk's SpaceX is gearing up for the next test of its Starship megarocket on Sunday, after a string of recent failures that has prompted some observers to question its viability.
The world's most powerful launch vehicle is set to lift off from the company's Starbase in southern Texas at 6:30 pm local time (2330 GMT) for its tenth flight.
The mission aims to put the upper stage t Small GEOs, big impact
Friday, 22 August 2025 19:00
Astranis CEO John Gedmark discusses the rising demand for small geostationary satellites as the company scales production and helps shape a new era of high-orbit connectivity.
1,800 Global Leaders Converge in Paris for the Most Powerful Week in Space
Friday, 22 August 2025 13:57
Urban Sky wins STRATFI contract for stratospheric balloon technologies
Friday, 22 August 2025 13:02
Stratospheric ballooning company Urban Sky has won a contract from the U.S. Air Force to support development of technologies that enable small balloons to complement, or replace, satellites.