Space – Page 80 of 93

May 18, 2016, 5:56 PM

Video: ‘Star Trek’ shows its age – and agelessness – in EMP Museum’s 50th-anniversary exhibition

From several yards away, the bridge of the Starship Enterprise looks as if it was beamed down from the 23rd century… Read More

May 18, 2016, 10:59 AM

NASA’s chief agrees with author of ‘The Martian’: The first Mars crews will steer robots from orbit

The first humans to reach Mars almost certainly won’t go down to the surface, but will manage fleets of rovers… Read More

Terry Virts on International Space Station for 'A Beautiful Planet'

May 17, 2016, 5:53 PM

‘A Beautiful Planet’: Astronauts and space moviemakers reflect on film’s final frontier

“A Beautiful Planet” is a 3-D visual feast for the eyes, but the astronauts who filmed the IMAX space extravaganza made… Read More

May 16, 2016, 2:14 PM

More frontiers lie ahead as International Space Station makes its 100,000th orbit

The International Space Station registered its 100,000th orbit around the planet today, providing NASA with a news hook for looking at what… Read More

May 13, 2016, 3:37 PM

MSNW’s magnetoshell aerobraking system gets in on NASA’s way-out research fund

A system that would use magnetic fields to ease a spacecraft into orbit after an interplanetary journey has won a… Read More

May 12, 2016, 5:47 PM

Dwarfy McPlanetface? The icy world known as 2007 OR10 cries out for a name

Observations made by NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggest that the icy world known as 2007 OR10 is bigger than astronomers thought… Read More

May 11, 2016, 4:18 PM

Boeing’s Starliner schedule for sending astronauts into orbit slips to 2018

A top Boeing executive said today that the company plans to start sending crews into orbit aboard its CST-100 Starliner… Read More

May 11, 2016, 1:42 PM

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashes down, returning Scott Kelly’s samples

A month after delivering an expandable prototype habitat and other goodies to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule splashed down… Read More

May 10, 2016, 2:17 PM

1,284 new worlds! Kepler mission doubles its tally of planets in one fell swoop

The scientists behind NASA’s Kepler mission are using statistics to put their campaign to identify new planets into overdrive: New software… Read More

May 10, 2016, 9:43 AM

Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos

Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? The novelty is still there in newly released videos… Read More

May 9, 2016, 10:53 AM

Relive Seattle’s night of the northern lights with these spectacular pictures

Seattle isn’t as much of a hot spot for the northern lights as, say, Alaska or Sweden – but this weekend,… Read More

May 9, 2016, 8:20 AM

Transit of Mercury: How you can watch an astronomical rarity despite the clouds

For the first time in a decade, we Earthlings can watch the planet Mercury’s black speck pass across the sun… Read More

May 6, 2016, 1:58 PM

What’s new from New Horizons: Clean water ice on Pluto’s far-out moon, Hydra

If you’re looking for a place to chip off an ice cube for a cool interplanetary drink, you can’t do… Read More

May 6, 2016, 10:34 AM

Satellites reveal just how bad the wildfires are in Alberta’s oil-sand country

Canadian firefighters are still struggling to get a handle on wide-ranging wildfires in Alberta’s oil-sand country, and satellite images are… Read More

May 5, 2016, 11:17 PM

Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite

SpaceX increased the degree of difficulty for tonight’s Falcon 9 rocket landing attempt at sea after launching a Japanese satellite… Read More

View of ultracool dwarf star with planets

May 2, 2016, 2:58 PM

NASA keeps its eye on a trio of potentially habitable planets just 40 light-years away

Three potentially habitable and definitely weird planets have been detected orbiting an ultracool dwarf star that’s 40 light-years away from… Read More

Apr 27, 2016, 5:24 PM

GPS-3 is go: SpaceX wins its first national security launch contract … by default

SpaceX today won an $82.7 million contract to launch a GPS-3 navigational satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force,… Read More

Apr 26, 2016, 5:31 PM

Hubble Space Telescope spots a moon circling faraway dwarf planet Makemake

Chalk up another moon for the dwarf planets: Astronomers have sifted through imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope to find a tiny satellite circling… Read More

Apr 25, 2016, 10:54 AM

British astronaut Tim Peake breaks the world record for marathon in space

It’s amazing that British astronaut Tim Peake just broke the record for a space marathon, but it’s almost as amazing… Read More

Apr 21, 2016, 5:45 PM

Job One for Aerojet’s future ion drive: Go out and get a piece of an asteroid

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s next-generation ion thrusters could well make their debut in space during NASA’s robotic mission to grab a piece of an asteroid and bring… Read More

Apr 21, 2016, 8:00 AM

Hubble bubble! Nebula shines on birthday card for 26-year-old space telescope

It’s been 26 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit, but the Bubble Nebula picture unveiled to… Read More

Apr 19, 2016, 6:29 PM

SpaceX Falcon booster comes full circle to Cape Canaveral after landing at sea

Eleven days after a thrilling landing at sea, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster is coming back to the company’s space-age garage… Read More

Apr 19, 2016, 3:24 PM

An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s operation in Redmond, Wash., has won a $67 million contract from NASA to design and develop an advanced… Read More

Apr 19, 2016, 10:59 AM

Tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain fleshes out plans for BlueDot innovation factory

Naveen Jain’s Moon Express is well along in its plans for a lunar mission next year, but the Seattle dot-com… Read More

Apr 15, 2016, 12:59 PM

United Launch Alliance’s CEO weighs Blue Origin’s chances in multibillion-dollar rocket engine race

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – United Launch Alliance’s president and CEO, Tory Bruno, is facing a 2019 deadline from Congress to come… Read More

Apr 14, 2016, 6:20 PM

Get your cycler to Mars: Buzz Aldrin lays out his plan to settle Red Planet in 2040

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Nearly five decades after his first spaceflight, Buzz Aldrin is still thinking about the next giant… Read More

Apr 13, 2016, 5:49 PM

Moon Village vs. Journey to Mars: Which space vision will the next president pick?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Over the past eight years, the focus of NASA’s space vision has shifted from the moon,… Read More

Apr 13, 2016, 1:41 PM

Interview: Jeff Bezos lays out Blue Origin’s space vision, from tourism to off-planet heavy industry

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t focused on creating America’s biggest online retailer when he was… Read More

Apr 12, 2016, 5:35 PM

Jeff Bezos describes future space tours – and explains why he passed up a moon trip

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his chance to go into space in a Russian Soyuz… Read More

Apr 12, 2016, 11:15 AM

Billionaire Yuri Milner unveils $100 million start on Starshot mission to Alpha Centauri

Fueled by an initial $100 million from Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, a team laden with big names laid out a multi-decade… Read More