Mars helicopter Ingenuity gets 1st taste of Red Planet air (video) By Mike Wall Over the weekend, NASA's Perseverance rover dropped the debris shield that protected the Mars helicopter Ingenuity during the mission's epic Feb. 18 touchdown.
Elon Musk shows off SpaceX's 1st Starship Super Heavy booster By Mike Wall SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off the company's first Starship Super Heavy booster in a Twitter post on Thursday (March 18).
The Mars helicopter on NASA's Perseverance rover could fly in early April By Mike Wall The teams behind NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter have chosen an airfield on the Red Planet for the little chopper and are gearing up for flights in the near future.
Arcs of 'lightning' on the moon could be the future of lunar mining By Chelsea Gohd Could shooting arcs of "lightning" across the surface of the moon allow us to mine metal and water from the lunar surface at the same time?
US Air Force says it will test bizarre 'hypersonic' weapon this month By Rafi Letzter At some point in the next few weeks, the U.S. plans to fire an extreme, hypersonic weapon. The question remains: What's the point?
US Air Force is guarding against electromagnetic pulse attacks. Should we worry? By Edd Gent A U.S. Air Force base in Texas has taken the first steps to guard against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. But what, exactly, is an EMP, and how big is the threat?
Thousands more satellites will soon orbit Earth. We need better rules to prevent space crashes. By Lauren Napier In recent years, satellites have become smaller, cheaper, and easier to make with commercial off the shelf parts.
Spotting UFOs: Do-it-yourself sky surveillance comes online By Leonard David If you are perplexed by reports of unidentified aerial phenomena and possible visitations of alien spacecraft, you can take action with do-it-yourself sky-monitoring gear.
A new rocket, Venus missions and more: Rocket Lab's Peter Beck is aiming big in space By Mike Wall Space.com caught up with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck to talk about the company's newly announced Neutron rocket, other plans going forward — and how his hat tasted.
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.
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.
