Space – Page 45 of 93

Oct 7, 2018, 8:00 PM

Sonic-boom UFO show! SpaceX launches satellite, lands rocket booster in California

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket executed its first on-land touchdown on the West Coast tonight after sending Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A satellite… Read More

Oct 5, 2018, 3:32 PM

Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019

NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tests of the space taxis that are… Read More

Oct 5, 2018, 10:56 AM

MASCOT lander sends back otherworldly views of asteroid Ryugu’s rugged terrain

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe and the German-French MASCOT lander have teamed up to send back amazing views of an asteroid… Read More

Oct 4, 2018, 4:08 PM

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes a deal to build rocket servicing center in Florida

Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has struck a deal with Florida’s spaceport authority to… Read More

Oct 4, 2018, 12:13 PM

U.S.-Russian trio returns to Earth from space station on Sputnik anniversary

What better way to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the start of the Space Age than to see the successful… Read More

Oct 4, 2018, 9:30 AM

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 17-hour survey

A robotic probe the size of a shoebox set itself down on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 180 million miles… Read More

Oct 3, 2018, 3:41 PM

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg lays out his vision for space airplanes and aerospace traffic system

A decade from now, Boeing will still be primarily known as an airplane company, the company’s CEO says. But some… Read More

Oct 3, 2018, 1:28 PM

Boeing CEO: First operational self-flying cars are less than 5 years out

Autonomous flying cars have always seemed like a futuristic innovation that belongs more on the silver screen than in real… Read More

Oct 3, 2018, 11:00 AM

Hubble Space Telescope boosts evidence for first exomoon seen circling alien planet

With a lot of help from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now feel confident enough to publish their evidence for… Read More

Oct 3, 2018, 10:11 AM

Blue Origin works on Blue Moon lunar trip with Germany’s OHB and MT Aerospace

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, has signed a letter of intent to cooperate with Germany’s OHB Group… Read More

Oct 2, 2018, 9:59 PM

Search for Planet Nine turns up a way-out dwarf planet that’s called ‘The Goblin’

While searching for a hypothetical Planet Nine, astronomers found a distant mini-world that’s been given a spooky nickname: “The Goblin.”… Read More

Oct 2, 2018, 8:28 PM

NanoRacks names its space outpost team, including Stratolaunch and Olis Robotics

It takes a village to raise an space outpost, and NanoRacks’ array of villagers includes Stratolaunch as well as Olis… Read More

Oct 1, 2018, 6:13 PM

Blue Origin and Airbus back ‘The Moon Race,’ a space contest yet to be defined

A new nonprofit organization is partnering with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, Airbus and other heavy-hitters to… Read More

Oct 1, 2018, 12:36 PM

Moon Express brings in $12.5M in backing for its lunar lander and Florida facilities

Moon Express, which aims to start missions to the moon within the next couple of years, says it has raised… Read More

Sep 30, 2018, 9:34 AM

From farm to final frontier: How Boeing’s CEO plants the seeds for tomorrow’s tech

Dennis Muilenburg is leading Boeing into a second century of innovation with dreams of hypersonic flight, self-flying planes and journeys… Read More

Sep 27, 2018, 11:38 PM

Check out close-up views of asteroid (plus a movie) from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission

The scientists and engineers behind Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission made history last week when the mission’s mothership dropped two mini-rovers… Read More

Sep 27, 2018, 6:26 PM

Paul G. Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture is lifting the veil on its PGA rocket engine

The name of Stratolaunch Systems’ home-grown rocket engine leaves no doubt about who’s footing the bill: It’s called the PGA,… Read More

Sep 27, 2018, 2:06 PM

Iridium plans to launch CloudConnect satellite IoT system in partnership with Amazon Web Services

Iridium, the satellite communications network, announced Thursday that it intends to work with Amazon Web Services to connect the leading… Read More

Sep 27, 2018, 1:47 PM

Economic report lays out strategies to boost Washington’s $1.8B space industry

A newly published economic report estimates the space industry’s contribution to Washington state’s economy at $1.8 billion and 6,200 jobs… Read More

Sep 27, 2018, 10:59 AM

Arch Mission partners with Microsoft, University of Washington and Twist to send DNA library to moon

DNA-based data storage systems have been proposed as a theoretical way to preserve information for millennia on the moon, but… Read More

Sep 27, 2018, 8:57 AM

Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine wins United Launch Alliance’s key multibillion-dollar backing

After years of development and months of suspense, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won a high-stakes… Read More

Sep 26, 2018, 8:55 PM

Stratolaunch’s plane spotted from space

How big is the world’s biggest airplane? So big that it shows up clearly in a black-and-white photo taken by… Read More

Sep 25, 2018, 7:13 PM

100th launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket sends a pair of telecom satellites into orbit

News Brief: The milestone 100th launch of Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket put two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit… Read More

Sep 25, 2018, 4:04 PM

As Mars’ huge dust storm clears, NASA’s Opportunity rover is seen but not heard

NASA’s Opportunity rover still hasn’t made contact after a weeks-long Martian dust storm forced it to go into hibernation, but… Read More

Sep 25, 2018, 1:31 PM

Are we alone? NASA turns to the search for technosignatures beyond Earth

It’s been a quarter-century since Congress cut off NASA funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, but now… Read More

Sep 25, 2018, 10:49 AM

Boeing seals the deal on its acquisition of Millennium Space’s satellite operation

News Brief: As promised, Boeing has completed its acquisition of California-based Millennium Space Systems, a provider of small-satellite solutions. Millennium,… Read More

Sep 24, 2018, 3:48 PM

TLDR: New study says Uber drivers are earning less

Today’s featured stories Uber drivers are earning less, Airbnb hosts are making more, and other insights from a new study… Read More

Sep 22, 2018, 11:42 AM

Japan launches robotic cargo spaceship to space station with supplies and science

News Brief: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency today launched a robotic cargo ship to the International Space Station, filled with… Read More

Sep 22, 2018, 10:53 AM

Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid

Two mini-rovers have sent their first pictures back from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, a day after they were… Read More

Sep 21, 2018, 3:06 PM

TESS probe finds first potential planets

Astronomers on the team for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, or TESS, are reporting their first potential planet discoveries,… Read More