Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. As astronauts and engineers like to say, space is tough, but that has never stopped bright minds from dreaming big. A Seattle-based company has revived NASA’s spaceplane plans, which were abandoned in 2001… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more New research suggests that rocky fragments from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally hit in 2022, could create the first man-made meteor shower, known as the Dimorphids. The space agency planned the… Read More »
Historically, most space mission systems have used a single spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission autonomously. Whether a weather satellite or a human-crewed module like Apollo, nearly every spacecraft has deployed and completed a single mission entirely autonomously. But today, space industry organizations are exploring missions that involve many satellites working together. SpaceX’s Starlink… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (Left) A color view of Mercury produced using images from the color basemap imaging campaign during MESSENGER’s primary mission. (Right) What Mercury might look like if its outer layers were peeled back to reveal a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds.… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and crew have been in space for more than a month, far longer than the initially anticipated one-week stay. Due to technical issues with the vehicle, the return process has been postponed… Read More »
I stand so close to JAXA’s Hayabusa2 asteroid lander that I could reach out and touch it. Instead, I jump on top of it. Then I strike a pose. When I jump, I hover low for a moment gravity A rugged, grey world, devoid of life and colour, before slowly descending to the surface of… Read More »
American astronaut Gus Grissom felt like he was on top of the world for about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, and indeed he was. Grissom crewed on the Liberty Bell 7 mission, a ballistic test flight that launched him into the atmosphere on a rocket. During testing, it sat in a small capsule and… Read More »
Ed Stone, former JPL director and Voyager mission project scientist, in front of a model of one of the Voyager spacecraft. The gold plaque can be seen over his left shoulder. Credit – NASA/JPL Caltech STeve Synnott never forgot the day he let Ed Stone name the moon. The year was 1980, and Synnott was… Read More »
Listen here on the podcast platform of your choice. Health experts warn that E.coli cases are ‘likely to increase’ due to an outbreak linked to ‘nationally distributed food’, with dozens of people already in hospital. Cath Rees, professor of Microbiology at the University of Nottingham’s School of Biological Sciences, tells Tech & Science Daily everything… Read More »
After a successful launch a decade in the making, Boeing’s Starliner mission is trying to solve new problems on its way to the International Space Station, according to NASA. Two additional helium leaks were detected in the vehicle, the space agency said in a post on X late Wednesday. A helium leak was discovered prior… Read More »