Space – Page 45 of 93

Oct 18, 2018, 7:22 PM

NASA puts out the call for science and technology payloads made for the moon

NASA is following up on its plan to purchase rides on commercial lunar landers by soliciting ideas for the scientific… Read More

Oct 18, 2018, 3:01 PM

12 years after her trip to space, Anousheh Ansari takes over as the CEO of XPRIZE

In 2004, Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari helped fund the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. In 2006, she… Read More

Oct 18, 2018, 1:54 PM

Boeing and ISS National Lab award $500,000 to boost cancer research in orbit

For the fifth year in a row, Boeing and the International Space Station’s U.S. national laboratory are partnering to pay… Read More

Oct 17, 2018, 1:44 PM

Rocket Lab picks Virginia’s Wallops Island for U.S. launch site, adding to N.Z. pad

Rocket Lab officially unveiled its plan to build a commercial launch site at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia’s Wallops… Read More

Oct 16, 2018, 3:20 PM

Paul Allen’s passing leaves unfinished business on Stratolaunch’s space frontier

Seattle billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen’s death comes just as his Stratolaunch space venture is counting down to the first flight… Read More

Oct 15, 2018, 8:59 PM

50 years after Apollo moonshots, will rivalry with China spark a new space race?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An American rivalry with China could stoke a new space race in the years ahead, prominent members of… Read More

Oct 15, 2018, 7:40 PM

Chandra X-ray telescope is back at work: Engineers trace glitch to 3 seconds of error

NASA’s 19-year-old Chandra X-ray Observatory has been returned to its normal pointing mode after a data glitch forced a five-day… Read More

Oct 15, 2018, 1:15 PM

Attention, Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet

Jeff Bezos loves to talk about space. And in a talk about just that on Monday, he encouraged anyone who… Read More

Oct 13, 2018, 10:59 AM

Chandra X-ray telescope experiences a glitch; Hubble troubleshooting continues

Even as experts worked on ways to get the Hubble Space Telescope back doing science, another one of NASA’s Great… Read More

Oct 12, 2018, 1:14 PM

Review: ‘First Man’ and ‘The First’ focus on the moon, on Mars … and on families

Two big-name dramatic productions — “First Man” in theaters, and “The First” on Hulu — are putting the glorious past… Read More

Oct 11, 2018, 8:33 PM

Paul Allen’s giant Stratolaunch plane gets closer to first flight with 80 mph taxi test

The world’s biggest airplane, built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems, is one step closer to making its first… Read More

Oct 11, 2018, 6:30 AM

Russian rocket malfunctions during launch to space station; crew makes safe landing

An American and a Russian spaceflier are in good shape after they were forced to abort their trip to the… Read More

Oct 10, 2018, 2:28 PM

NASA watchdogs blame SLS rocket snags on Boeing missteps and poor oversight

NASA’s Space Launch System, the rocket that’s being designed to send astronauts to the moon and Mars, seems likely to… Read More

Oct 10, 2018, 10:54 AM

Blue Origin resets schedule: First crew to space in 2019, first orbital launch in 2021

LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is now planning to send its first… Read More

Oct 10, 2018, 9:46 AM

Boeing leads $3M round to boost Accion Systems’ electric space propulsion system

Boeing’s venture capital fund is leading a $3 million investment round for Accion Systems, a Boston-based startup whose electric propulsion… Read More

Oct 9, 2018, 12:54 PM

Get a piece of the rock: Large lunar meteorite known as ‘The Moon Puzzle’ to go up for auction

Anyone interested in meteorite science is going to be over the moon when it comes to an item being presented… Read More

Oct 8, 2018, 10:42 AM

Hubble Space Telescope goes into safe mode due to failed gyro; Plan B pending

The 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is temporarily out of service, due to the failure of one of its gyroscopic pointing… Read More

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