Space – Page 57 of 93

Jan 23, 2018, 10:54 AM

XPRIZE confirms no one will win Google’s millions for commercial moon landing

The organizers for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize competition acknowledged today that the award for a commercially funded… Read More

Jan 22, 2018, 6:05 PM

Kepler Communications’ first satellite expands ‘Internet of Things’ to space

News Brief: Toronto-based Kepler Communications says its first Ku-band telecommunications satellite is in working order after a Jan. 19 launch… Read More

Jan 22, 2018, 5:08 PM

Amid Zuma satellite controversy, SpaceX gets a vote of confidence from Air Force

News Brief: The classified satellite known as Zuma was said to have disappeared soon after its Jan. 7 launch on… Read More

Jan 22, 2018, 2:37 PM

Moon ambitions get a reality check — plus a boost from Apollo moonshot memories

Update for 10:54 a.m. PT Jan. 23: The managers of the Google Lunar X Prize competition acknowledge that the prize… Read More

Jan 20, 2018, 7:00 PM

Rocket Lab sends Electron rocket into orbit, marking milestone for moon mission

Rocket Lab’s two-stage Electron rocket successfully reached Earth orbit and deployed satellites for the first time today, raising hopes for… Read More

Jan 11, 2018, 5:56 PM

UPDATED: Planetary Resources and Spaceflight Industries mark successful rocket launch in India

Updated on Friday morning with details of launch. A rocket that lifted off from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center just… Read More

Jan 9, 2018, 9:00 AM

Gravitational waves get to play a starring role in ‘Black Hole Apocalypse’ on TV

Black holes are the collapsed stars of the show on “Black Hole Apocalypse,” a two-hour “NOVA” presentation that’s premiering Wednesday… Read More

Jan 8, 2018, 8:51 PM

Mysterious U.S. government spy satellite believed to be lost after SpaceX launch

Turns out this weekend’s SpaceX mission didn’t go off without a hitch, after all. The secret U.S. government payload —… Read More

Jan 7, 2018, 5:00 PM

SpaceX launches ‘Zuma’ spacecraft with secret U.S. government payload, lands Falcon 9

UPDATED: SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center this evening, carrying a secretive U.S. government payload… Read More

Jan 3, 2018, 10:38 AM

Quadrantid meteors reach their peak, upstaged by a supermoon’s afterglow

News Brief: The good news is that the annual Quadrantid meteor shower is reaching its peak tonight with relatively clear… Read More

Jan 3, 2018, 6:00 AM

Alien megastructure? Forget about it, weird star’s discoverers say after further study

The astronomers who once speculated that an alien megastructure might be responsible for the weirdly fluctuating light from a distant… Read More

Dec 30, 2017, 10:30 AM

Year in space: Look back at 2017’s black sun … look forward to 2018’s bright moon

The first total solar eclipse to go across America from coast to coast in 99 years has to rank as… Read More

Dec 29, 2017, 1:11 PM

How scientists are expanding the spectrum for SETI and the search for alien life

BERKELEY, Calif. — Twenty years after the movie “Contact” brought the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, to the big… Read More

Dec 28, 2017, 1:49 PM

Blue Origin space venture spends $14M on space for offices and warehouse in Kent

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has spent $14.1 million to buy 31 acres of… Read More

Dec 28, 2017, 10:25 AM

Doll of the year: 2018’s top American Girl is an aspiring astronaut named Luciana Vega

American Girl put a Space Age spin on the centuries-old tradition of dress-up dolls today by unveiling a spacesuit-clad character… Read More

Dec 27, 2017, 1:59 PM

Happy Kwanzaa from NASA – and Ceres!

Kwanzaa may be an African-American festival on Earth, but it’s also a cute little mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres –… Read More

Dec 26, 2017, 6:46 PM

‘Jedi’ to ‘Solo’: 10 sci-fi shows for 2018

The dust has barely settled on the premiere of “Star Wars, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.” Or is that a… Read More

Dec 23, 2017, 10:25 AM

Aliens in L.A.? Santa? Even Elon Musk has some fun with SpaceX rocket’s sky show

The bloom of exhaust that blossomed in Southern California’s skies during Friday evening’s liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket sparked… Read More

Dec 22, 2017, 6:50 PM

SpaceX puts 10 Iridium telecom satellites in orbit – and creates a spectacle in the sky

SpaceX has sent 10 more satellites into orbit for the Iridium NEXT constellation, passing the halfway point in its 75-satellite… Read More

Dec 22, 2017, 3:33 PM

Iconic free-flying shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless passes away at the age of 80

News Brief: Retired astronaut Bruce McCandless II, the first astronaut to fly untethered from his spacecraft, has died at the… Read More

Dec 22, 2017, 12:18 PM

A car for Mars: Elon Musk shows Tesla Roadster revving up for Falcon Heavy liftoff

After a flurry of speculation, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is showing off his midnight cherry-red Tesla Roadster sports car as… Read More

Dec 20, 2017, 6:10 PM

Every day is moving day for Blue Origin’s new rocket facilities in Florida

Blue Origin hasn’t put up the “Grand Opening” sign yet, but there’s clearly business going on at the Florida rocket… Read More

Dec 20, 2017, 2:10 PM

NASA picks a drone for Titan and a return to a comet as prospects for future probes

A rotorcraft that could flit around the Saturnian moon Titan and a probe that could bring a sample back from… Read More

Dec 20, 2017, 9:28 AM

Elon Musk lifts the veil on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket being readied for its debut

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket just got more real, now that billionaire founder Elon Musk has tweeted out pictures of the… Read More

Dec 19, 2017, 10:19 PM

World View balloon goes boom after Spaceport Tucson test; no injuries reported

News Brief: A high-altitude balloon reportedly exploded at Spaceport Tucson in Arizona today after a test that was being conducted… Read More

Dec 19, 2017, 7:52 PM

DNA sequencer proves its worth by solving a microbial mystery on the space station

NASA isn’t saying it’s aliens — but the space agency is touting its ability to identify organisms using the first DNA… Read More

Dec 19, 2017, 5:39 PM

Juno probe’s new Jupiter pictures rate a 10

It’s been just three days since NASA’s Juno orbiter had its most recent close encounter with Jupiter, but image-processing gurus… Read More

Dec 19, 2017, 8:43 AM

No pilot required: Boeing unveils autonomous plane for refueling fighter jets in midair

Boeing pulled back the curtain on an autonomous plane designed to refuel U.S. Navy fighter jets in midair to extend their… Read More

Dec 19, 2017, 5:53 AM

A new trio settles in on the space station

News Brief: The International Space Station’s crew is back up to its full complement of six, thanks to today’s arrival… Read More

Dec 18, 2017, 6:48 PM

Virgin Galactic strikes a deal to send Italian scientist on suborbital space trip in 2019

News Brief: Virgin Galactic and the Italian Space Agency say they’ve signed a letter of intent to send an Italian… Read More