Space – Page 73 of 93

Dec 6, 2016, 6:34 PM

Jeff Bezos shows how Blue Origin’s orbital rocket factory is taking shape in Florida

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is showing off the “extraordinary progress” being made on the Florida factory where Blue Origin’s New… Read More

Dec 5, 2016, 8:42 PM

Video: How will we get to Alpha Centauri? Researchers work on an antimatter drive

Project Blue’s scientists still have to raise more than $800,000 over the next 15 days to reach their initial crowdfunding goal… Read More

Dec 3, 2016, 12:25 PM

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo plane takes its first free-flying test glide

Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, dubbed VSS Unity, successfully glided through its first free-flying test run today. The flight… Read More

Dec 2, 2016, 10:19 PM

Japanese heavy-hitters invest lightly in PD Aerospace’s space tourism effort

PD Aerospace, a Japanese company that’s similar to Virgin Galactic in its commercial spaceflight aspirations, has picked up two high-profile… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 11:45 AM

Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is ‘safe’ in New Zealand after falling ill in Antarctica

Buzz Aldrin’s South Pole adventure turned into a medical emergency when his health deteriorated, but his manager says the Apollo… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 10:59 AM

Russia’s Progress cargo shipment to space station burns up in fiery plunge

A robotic Russian Progress spaceship and its cargo were lost today, minutes after its launch to the International Space Station… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 10:47 PM

LIGO goes back to the gravity-wave grind

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory is back on the hunt for ripples in spacetime, months after reporting the first signature of… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 8:01 PM

Aerospace startups use Starburst’s shark tank in Seattle to keep their dreams afloat

Some aerospace ventures came to Starburst Accelerator’s shark tank in Seattle today to find investors. Others were looking for customers.… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 11:45 PM

How cloud computing boosts NASA’s quest to explore the final frontier

When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the cloud-computing geeks at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, you can bet… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 10:35 PM

NASA unveils a skill for Amazon’s Alexa that lets you ask questions about Mars

Amazon’s Alexa has gained many skills over the past year, such as being able to read tweets or deliver election… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 5:25 PM

NASA’s mission to snag asteroid faces questions amid Trump transition

House Republicans are voicing renewed doubts about NASA’s plan to have astronauts study a piece of an asteroid – a turn… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 2:43 PM

DARPA group will promote best practices for using robots to make satellite repairs in space

Getting a satellite into orbit may be a challenging enough endeavor on its own, but the idea of repairing one… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 10:56 AM

Starburst Venture raises $200 million for aerospace startups (and heads for Seattle)

On the eve of its first event in Seattle, Starburst Accelerator says it has set up a $200 million venture… Read More

Nov 28, 2016, 4:33 PM

How to get water on Mars? UW researchers are working on a way to cook it out of soil

Scientists say there’s enough water in just one region of Mars to fill up Lake Superior – if only it could be… Read More

Nov 28, 2016, 10:59 AM

Star Wars fans jam up ‘Rogue One’ ticket websites – and get new trailers to watch

The past 24 hours have brought good news and bad news for throngs of Star Wars fans who are eagerly… Read More

Nov 25, 2016, 10:00 AM

Holiday guide to science books about life, the universe and everything

Fans of the late science-fiction humorist Douglas Adams know that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and… Read More

Shane Kimbrough on International Space Station

Nov 22, 2016, 4:08 PM

Thanksgiving in space: A full day of work, then turkey from a pouch (and football)

The two Americans aboard the International Space Station won’t be getting Thanksgiving Day off, but they will be getting NASA’s… Read More

Nov 19, 2016, 4:23 PM

Doubleheader in space! Trio arrives at space station, weather satellite lifts off

NASA and its space partners juggled an arrival and a departure today: First, three new crew members docked with the International… Read More

Nov 18, 2016, 9:49 AM

Billionaire Jeff Bezos gets all geeky over Blue Origin’s robotic rocket drilling machine

Building a rocket ship may sound romantic, but there are a lot of nitty-gritty details behind the work – and that’s… Read More

Nov 17, 2016, 5:54 PM

Space station trip makes NASA’s Peggy Whitson the oldest woman in space

Today’s liftoff of a Soyuz spaceship heading for the International Space Station launched NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson into the history… Read More

Nov 16, 2016, 3:21 PM

SpaceX files FCC application for internet access network with 4,425 satellites

SpaceX has laid out further details about a 4,425-satellite communications network that’s expected to provide global broadband internet access, with… Read More

Nov 16, 2016, 11:00 AM

How a shifting ocean caused Pluto to flip over – putting its ‘heart’ in the right place

Pluto’s famous heart-shaped feature may well have migrated over the course of millions of years as the dwarf planet spun,… Read More

Nov 15, 2016, 12:40 PM

You’ll get a howl out of this: Supermoon turns Buzz Aldrin into American Werewolf

This week’s supermoon has been pretty much clouded out in Seattle, but it appears to have had an effect on… Read More

Nov 15, 2016, 6:00 AM

Project Blue kicks off $1 million crowdfunding campaign to seek out Alpha Centauri’s alien Earths

How much would you pay to find out whether Alpha Centauri’s twin suns possess blue planets like Earth? Project Blue… Read More

Nov 14, 2016, 10:59 AM

Spaceflight Industries unveils BlackSky satellite’s first pictures of our planet

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is sharing some of the first pictures of Earth ever taken by its low-cost, high-resolution BlackSky Pathfinder-1… Read More

Nov 13, 2016, 10:00 AM

This supermoon will be extra-super

The full moon is looking bigger and brighter this week than it’s looked since 1948 – and although you may not… Read More

Nov 11, 2016, 4:13 PM

WorldView-4 joins DigitalGlobe’s armada of satellites keeping watch on the planet

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite was sent into orbit today to capture high-resolution, multispectral imagery of Earth, almost two months after California’s wildfires… Read More

Nov 11, 2016, 10:00 AM

Here’s what Donald Trump, NASA and SpaceX need to do to get us to Mars

The “Mars” miniseries premiering on the National Geographic Channel is only the latest in a decades-long string of media projects… Read More

Nov 10, 2016, 6:27 PM

Space station chief flips over Veterans Day

Shane Kimbrough may not be the highest-ranking U.S. veteran, but he’s definitely the highest, by virtue of his status as… Read More

Nov 7, 2016, 5:10 PM

Sisterhood is powerful when it comes to Seattle’s commercial space scene

The billionaires who run Blue Origin and SpaceX – Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – may be locked in an outer-space rivalry,… Read More