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It's been 44 years since the mighty Saturn V last thundered skyward from a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The towering rocket, generating enough power to lift 269,000 pounds into orbit, had been the workhorse of the Apollo moon miss
"There's been nothing shortsighted about this," Rogers said. "We started working on it vigorously in September, and we've had countless meetings with a number of experts who have advised us as to how this should be construed. In fact, this
A few days ago, the Juno probe completed the closest flyby of Jupiter's infamous Great Red Spot ever conducted by a spacecraft. After an agonizing wait the photos are now in… and they are absolutely incredible.
John Bucknell was Senior Propulsion Engineer for the Raptor full-flow staged combustion methalox rocket at Spacex and is currently the Senior Propulsion Scientist for Divergent3D in Torrance, CA developing additively manufactured vehicle technologies
John Becknell designer of the Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket (NTTR) and x-senior engineer on the Space Raptor engine is answering questions at nextbigfuture.
Which Could Cause Part of the Earth's Atmosphere to COLLAPSE, Claim Boffs
Two weeks ago, Spacex successfully launched and recovered two Falcon 9 first stage boosters in the space of 49 hours.
An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet's Great Red Spot.
The 500 meter wide FAST dish has made a poor rural province the center of China's search for extraterrestrial life. But how likely is it the telescope will indeed start intercepting alien messages?
Project aimed at creating self-sustaining ecosystem that provides everything humans need to survive
A US congressional committee is proposing that the US armed forces add a new military branch called the United States Space Corps. If this is passed it would be the first new branch of the armed forces since the Air Force was created in 1947.
How do you make research in space less expensive? Why not build a space station where half of the structure functions as a luxury hotel–and the other half belongs to NASA's astronauts?
We're getting our closest view ever of the 10,000-mile-wide storm.
NASA's technology development branch has been funding a project called Kilopower for three years and testing is due to start in September, 2017 and end in January 2018.
Last July 4th, NASA's Juno spacecraft slowed its record breaking pace just enough to get caught in the pull of Jupiter's gravity. (The timing, according to NASA, was just a very patriotic coincidence.) Either way, Independence Day 2016 was the last t
Space Battleship Yamato is a major anime movie series. The original Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars. It was followed by over a dozen movie sequels.
EMdrive inventor Shawyer's latest information on military applications and superconducting EMDrive progress
A look at the scientific evidence for panspermia.
No landing this time, though
The former ISS Commander weighs in on what skills we'll need as we expand into space.
Planet Labs and other companies are sending hundreds of low-cost satellites into orbit. We're only beginning to understand how that will change life on Earth.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Bulgarian communications satellite launched on June 23, 2017. SpaceX is scheduled to launch another Falcon 9 rocket on July 2. Credit: SpaceX
By now, "Here Are Some Stupid Things on the Internet of Things" has become a full-on article genre. There's even a Tumblr dedicated to the idea: "We Put a Chip in It," it's called.
Although Europe's Space Rider reusable space plane is three years or so from its debut, the European Space Agency (ESA) is already making plans to privatize the unmanned orbital vehicle.
Adam Crowl considers spaceships if EM-Drive is verified as a real thing.
Stable flight of a laser sail is an essential requirement of beam-driven propulsion. Centauri Dreams talked to James Benford about work towards stable beam flight. It places considerable demand upon the shape of the sail and beam.
A student team from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took top honors last weekend at the 2017 Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico.
Ever wondered what happens when galaxies "collide?"
SpaceX nailed its second launch in three days today (June 25) with liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying 10 satellites owned by Iridium Communications.