Space – Page 75 of 93

Oct 12, 2016, 4:39 PM

Hail, Asgardia! Scientist plans to create nation in space, but details are up in the air

A Russian scientist and businessman today unveiled a social-media-savvy plan to create the first-ever nation in space, named Asgardia. But… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 8:36 PM

GeekWire at the Movies: ‘Voyage of Time’ lays out a visual book of scientific genesis

Is it possible to create a visual gospel, to be seen on a movie screen rather than read from a… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 5:45 PM

Spectral signals from alien civilizations? Fresh set of SETI claims stirs up criticism

Two astronomers have generated a debate by claiming that they may have found the spectral signature of messages from an… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 4:13 PM

Spaceflight signs up Google’s Terra Bella for satellite launch on SpaceX rocket

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries says it’s made a deal with Terra Bella to have the Google subsidiary’s Earth-observing satellites launched on… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 11:01 AM

Obama talks up NASA’s vision for sending astronauts on giant leap to Mars by 2030s

President Barack Obama is throwing a spotlight on NASA’s plan for Mars exploration – and habitation – in advance of this week’s White… Read More

Oct 10, 2016, 6:04 PM

How aliens and Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell got tangled up in WikiLeaks emails

WikiLeaks’ purloined emails cover a wide range of issues that were handled by Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, but… Read More

Oct 10, 2016, 3:31 PM

Jeff Bezos marks retirement of Blue Origin New Shepard space capsule with a tortoise

After seven launches, Blue Origin’s first New Shepard suborbital space capsule is getting a send-off from the company’s founder, Amazon… Read More

Oct 10, 2016, 1:03 PM

A not-so-simple response: Messages beamed to aliens amid debate over perils

More than 3,000 messages were beamed toward the North Star today by a powerful radio telescope – and although the exercise… Read More

Oct 7, 2016, 6:11 PM

Brooke Owens Fellowships will boost women in aerospace (and we’re helping)

Space industry pioneer Brooke Owens didn’t live long enough to reach the final frontier, but her life has inspired a… Read More

Oct 7, 2016, 1:42 PM

Tethers Unlimited’s Firmamentum strikes deal to demonstrate orbital manufacturing

A division of Tethers Unlimited Inc., a space technology company based in Bothell, Wash., says it has signed a contract… Read More

Image: Stratolaunch with Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rockets

Oct 6, 2016, 10:32 AM

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch teams up (again) with Orbital ATK on air-launched rockets

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems has renewed its partnership with Orbital ATK on a platform that will make use… Read More

Oct 5, 2016, 9:40 PM

‘One hell of a booster’: Blue Origin’s spaceship totally survives what should have been a fiery flight

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is a happy man today, now that the wildest test flight ever conducted by his Blue Origin space venture has… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 4:59 PM

Has Leonardo DiCaprio signed up for Elon Musk’s trip to Mars? It’s just a joke, people!

For a time, the Internet was agog over Leonardo DiCaprio’s claim that he’s getting a ticket to Mars – presumably as… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 2:53 PM

Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views

How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more… Read More

Oct 3, 2016, 12:59 PM

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin delays dramatic rocket test flight due to bad weather

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has to pass up a historic date for its next flight test,… Read More

Oct 3, 2016, 10:59 AM

Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A multimillion-dollar campaign to look for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations has added telescopic observations of the nearest known… Read More

Sep 30, 2016, 6:12 AM

‘Farewell, Rosetta’: Europe’s mission to a comet ends with a bittersweet bang

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe today descended to a mission-ending impact on the comet that it followed for more than two… Read More

Sep 28, 2016, 9:41 PM

A virtual marketplace for a future Moon Village? The FAA just might make it happen

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – If the world wants to create a village on the moon, the Federal Aviation Administration is willing to… Read More

Sep 28, 2016, 4:04 PM

Reality check: Elon Musk’s Mars plan will cost more, take longer. What else is new?

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In order to make the figures work for Elon Musk’s plan to put settlers on Mars, SpaceX will… Read More

Sep 28, 2016, 2:57 PM

A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet

Colonies on Mars are no longer restricted to the pages of sci-fi classics and the imagination of ambitious space geeks. These settlements… Read More

Sep 27, 2016, 3:56 PM

SpaceX’s Elon Musk makes the big pitch for his decades-long plan to colonize Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made some ambitious sales pitches in his career, but today’s big reveal about his… Read More

Sep 27, 2016, 10:59 AM

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sets its sights on trips to Mars and the moon

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX isn’t the only billionaire-backed company that’s planning to go to Mars: Blue Origin, the space venture created… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 4:27 PM

Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket aces wind tunnel tests

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket isn’t due to go into orbit until later this decade, but its design has already… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 1:44 PM

Hubble readings firm up evidence for plumes of water at Jupiter’s moon Europa

It’s not aliens. And it’s not exactly surprising, despite NASA’s advance billing. But new evidence of water plumes emanating from… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 10:28 AM

SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweets sneak peeks at interplanetary transport system for Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In advance of this week’s big reveal, SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is dropping hints about the scale… Read More

Sep 25, 2016, 9:44 PM

India’s PSLV rocket sends BlackSky Global’s first Earth-watching Pathfinder satellite into orbit

A satellite that’s meant to blaze a trail for Seattle-based BlackSky Global’s Earth-imaging constellation rose into orbit tonight atop India’s four-stage PSLV-C35 rocket.… Read More

Sep 23, 2016, 3:35 PM

How deep does Pluto’s ocean go? Would you believe nine times deeper than Earth’s?

Scientists have been saying for months that Pluto could have a salty, sloshing ocean beneath its icy surface, but now… Read More

Sep 23, 2016, 12:10 PM

SpaceX says probe into Falcon 9 launch pad blast points to helium system leak

SpaceX says an investigation into the launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload has… Read More

Sep 23, 2016, 10:58 AM

Balloons rise up on the strato-frontier

Drones, satellites and rocket planes are all well and good for high-flying missions, but sometimes the best craft for the job… Read More

Sep 22, 2016, 7:25 PM

Internal email: Paul Allen’s top space exec Chuck Beames leaving Vulcan Aerospace

Aerospace veteran Chuck Beames is leaving his post as president of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s spaceflight company, Vulcan Aerospace. Word… Read More