NASA’s Spacecraft That Touched the Sun Just Won Aerospace’s Biggest Prize
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...
Watch this SpaceX rival launch its third mission in two weeks
New Zealand-based Rocket Lab has launched its third mission in two weeks, marking a new record for the up-and-coming SpaceX ...
A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun
NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through ...
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NASA spacecraft set for second close encounter with the sun—what it hopes to learn
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for another close brush with the sun, reaching record speeds of 430,000 mph as it flies through the solar atmosphere. Scientists hope the mission will reveal new ...
Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency
Dean Hall sees Kerbal Space Program as one of the most inspiring games ever, and that's not just a personal opinion: It's the ...
Satellites powered by solid metal could one day use space junk for fuel
Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...
Laws governing space are 50 years old. New ones are needed to prevent it becoming a ‘wild west’
Private companies are now major players in space. How can they be held accountable if they damage the property of others or ...
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Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
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Hold the Moon and touch Mars at the Natural History Museum’s new exhibition Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?
A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...
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Mickey 17 filming locations: Where was the Robert Pattinson starrer filmed?
Mickey 17 has been a point of discussion for several reasons. This Robert Pattinson starrer showed director Bong Joon-ho's return to screen.
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NASA's New Space Telescope Launches to Explore the Origins of the Universe After a Series of Delays
“It’s really the first of its kind,” says Olivier Doré, the NASA mission’s project scientist ... years studying the sun’s outer atmosphere to better understand solar winds, which play a key role in ...
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PolyU scholar’s innovative R&D to reduce hypervelocity impact risk from space debris, supported by Innovation and Technology Fund
Hypervelocity impacts from space debris pose significant risks to spacecraft and satellites in outer space. To address this challenge, Prof. SU Zhongqing, Head of the Department of Mechanical ...