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- Five developments in space, time and fusion one day agoProjects from gravitational wave detection to viewing the Milky Way and generating thermonuclear power march aheadCern has announced plans for a Future Circular Collider...
- Seeds on the moon started to sprout for the first time but quickly died Sat, 19 Jan 19, 7:30amChina has taken a major step toward long-term space exploration. Earlier this month, the Chinese moon probe Chang’e 4 carried a container with cotton, mustard and potato seeds, yeast and fruit fly eggs to the moon’s far...
- How to watch NASA’s New Year’s date with a distant space rock Tue, 1 Jan 19, 9:00amFrom The Toronto Star Sun., Dec. 30, 2018 To ancient explorers, “Ultima Thule” was what lay past the northernmost edges of maps, beyond the borders of the known world. So when NASA chose a target for its New Horizons...
- It is rocket science... Fri, 30 Nov 18, 10:00pmThis week’s Upside digest on images sent back from Mars, and other scientific breakthroughs
- “Russia will Shape the Future of Spaceflight”: Announces Nuclear Powered Reusable Rocket Programme Fri, 16 Nov 18, 2:36pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall Russia has just raised the stakes in the space race, by going public with a reusable commercial nuclear powered launch vehicle which has been under development for the last decade...
- Space Race Game Changer? Chinese Space Elevator Breakthrough Sat, 27 Oct 18, 1:44amGuest essay by Eric Worrall South China Morning Post has published a claim that Chinese researchers have successfully synthesised a sample of a carbon nanotube material so strong it could be used to construct the tether cable...
- Studio Roosegaardes laser light art tracks floating space waste in the sky Sat, 13 Oct 18, 1:30amA dazzling neon green light show is illuminating the night skies in Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s latest large-scale art installation, the Space Waste Lab Performance...
- Despite a mishap, GOES-17 is online and producing imagery Wed, 10 Oct 18, 2:28amGOES-17, the western USA-centric twin satellite to GOES-16 looking at the east and midwest suffered some sort of mishap during launch and deployment. NASA and NOAA just announced they are convening a Mishap Investigation...
- Twin Japanese robotic rovers land on asteroid Ryugu Sun, 23 Sep 18, 6:57amToday, Japan made history by landing two rovers onto the surface of an asteroid. The two rovers (named Rover-1A and 1B) fell from their mothership, Hayabusa2, less than 100 meters above diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu. Now...
- California is ‘launching our own damn satellite’ to track pollution, with help from Planet Sat, 15 Sep 18, 7:44amCalifornia plans to launch a satellite to monitor pollution in the state and contribute to climate science, Governor Jerry Brown announced today. The state is partnering with satellite imagery purveyor Planet to create a...
- Scientists identify Earth-like exoplanets Thu, 2 Aug 18, 10:30pmScientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist...
- NOAA’s newest GOES 17 weather satellite may not be fixable, and a loss Thu, 26 Jul 18, 6:45amFrom NOAA and NextGov reports. The second satellite in NOAA’s $11 billion GOES program continues to experience issues with its most important instrument and officials still aren’t sure what’s wrong. The National Oceanic...
- Huge planet-wide dust storm on Mars knocks out NASA’s ‘Opportunity’ rover – scientists worried Thu, 14 Jun 18, 6:35amDust storm is now on the verge of circumnavigating the entire planet Mars rover Opportunity is in trouble. NASA engineers attempted to contact Opportunity yesterday, June 12th, but did not hear back from the nearly 15-year...
- These diamonds from outer space hint at a long-lost planet Wed, 18 Apr 18, 5:22amDiamonds in a meteorite that crashed into Earth years ago have now given scientists a glimpse into the universe's past. Recently, a team of scientists led by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland...
- Earth was buzzed by a giant asteroid this weekend and we didn't even realize it was coming Tue, 17 Apr 18, 1:35amEarth just survived a near miss with an asteroid, and we didn't even know it was coming. Around 1,500 people were injured in the aftermath of the Chelyabinsk meteorite when it exploded over Russia in 2013, and an even larger asteroid just...