The Perseverance rover may be on Mars, but there's a lot we already know about from meteorites on Earth By James Scott NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars Feb. 18, and has already begun beaming back images.
Company plans to start building private Voyager space station with artificial gravity in 2025 By Jeff Spry Orbital Assembly Corp. recently unveiled new details about its ambitious Voyager Station, which is projected to be the first commercial space station operating with artificial gravity.
The search for dark matter gets a speed boost from quantum technology By Benjamin Brubaker Nearly a century after dark matter was first proposed to explain the motion of galaxy clusters, physicists still have no idea what it’s made of.
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Mars InSight: why we'll be listening to the landing of the Perseverance rover By Benjamin Fernando As I write this, NASA's Perseverance Rover is hurtling toward Mars at a speed of more than 80,000 km/h and is set to land at the Red Planet on February 18.
'7 minutes of terror': A look at the technology Perseverance needs to survive landing on Mars By Chris James This month has been a busy one for Mars exploration. Several countries sent missions to the red planet in June last year, taking advantage of a launch window.
How a fleet of spacecraft will watch NASA's Perseverance rover land on Mars By Elizabeth Howell NASA's next Mars rover, Perseverance, will have a squad of spacecraft watching its dangerous descent from above Thursday (Feb. 18).
Here's how the Perseverance landing could pave the way for humans on Mars By Meghan Bartels Tucked in the belly of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is a golden box that, if all goes well, will turn some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere into sweet, sweet oxygen.
Could space greenhouses solve Earth's food crisis? By Tereza Pultarova Could food grown in space greenhouses save us here on Earth?
HPE, Microsoft to launch AI capabilities to space station with Spaceborne Computer-2 By Elizabeth Howell Cloud computing and artificial intelligence are about to meet in a new space station device: the Spaceborne Computer-2.
NASA's Perseverance rover is one week away from a daring landing on Mars. Watch how it works. By Elizabeth Howell NASA's flagship Mars rover Perseverance is one week away from landing on the Red Planet and a new video shows how it works.
Elon Musk, X Prize unveil $100 million carbon-capture contest By Mike Wall Elon Musk is funding a new Carbon Removal X Prize to the tune of $100 million — the richest incentive prize in history.
Chinese researchers to send an 'uncrackable' quantum message to space By Rafi Letzter It's now possible to send uncrackable quantum messages through thin air, and the people who figured out how to do it are getting ready to send the messages into space.
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO By Samantha Mathewson Amazon's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday (Feb. 2) that he is stepping down this year to focus on other initiatives, including his spaceflight company Blue Origin.
SpaceX vs NASA: Who will get us to the moon first? Here's how their latest rockets compare By Gareth Dorrian, Ian Whittaker No-one has visited the Moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human spaceflight, the urge to return is resurgent and generating a new space race.
Dawn Aerospace aims to launch New Zealand's 1st space plane from a conventional airport By Elizabeth Howell Dawn Aerospace has received approval to fly a suborbital space plane from a conventional airport in New Zealand.
Trump signs Space Policy Directive-7 on improving GPS cybersecurity By Samantha Mathewson A new space policy highlights the fundamental role of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in securing the United States' safety and economic growth.
Humans could move to this floating asteroid belt colony in the next 15 years, astrophysicist says By Brandon Specktor A new paper proposes building a 'megasatellite' of human habitats around the dwarf planet Ceres.
Vespera, a smart telescope to make astrophotography easier, nabs CES 2021 Innovation Award By Hanneke Weitering Vaonis, a French startup that raised eyebrows in 2018 with its sci-fi robot-looking Stellina smart telescope, has revealed its latest newbie-friendly astrophotography invention.
This transforming NASA rover can go places others could only dream of By Kasandra Brabaw A new "transforming" rover in development at NASA will be able to explore rough terrain unlike any rover before it.
