The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute announced today the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes.
Virgin Galactic has completed another successful glide test of its VSS Unity spaceplane, putting the company on track to send tourists into space within months.
Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes.
The year just gone was a momentous for furthering our understanding of the universe. SpaceX now routinely lands its rockets, NASA's Cassini craft crashed into Saturn in a spectacular and invaluable mission finale and researchers proved once and for a
Of course it wasn't Elon's fault - nothing ever is. Less than a week after SpaceX's failure to launch the mysterious Zuma satellite into orbit - the payload, which presumably cost hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars to develop, f
Take a 360 degree tour of the Milky Way: Incredible Nasa visualisation lets you explore giant stars and monster black holes that lie at the heart of our galaxy
Following reports from Monday that the Zuma spacecraft, a mystery payload SpaceX launched for client Northrop Grumman on behalf of the U.S. Government, was lost seemingly during the second stage separation process, the private space company has issue
Our journey starts 51 years ago at the historic Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Launch Pad 39A was where the Saturn V had it's first test flight with the Apollo 4 mission.
Spacex BFR construction will start in 4 to 6 months.
would have bigger than Saturn V payloads plus the magic of reusuability. How reusable is of course the trick, but in the optimal case that Brian has written about, to quote Brian:
at $7 million
The plasma magnet sail engine is little more than 2 pairs of charged rotating coils and is therefore extremely simple and inexpensive. A fully powered plasma magnet sail using a small nuclear power source could accelerate at 0.5G and reach 400-700 km
Inside the inventor's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars – and hopefully find love along the way
SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket is now vertical on launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The fully-assembled 229-foot-tall rocket will be the most powerful in the world when it blasts off.
The SpaceX BFR (Big Falcon Rocket or Big Fucking Rocket) has a planned payload of 150,000 kg (330,000 lb) when flying reusable or 250,000 kg (550,000 lb) when flying expendable, making it a super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
If schedules hold, Florida's Space Coast could see up to three dozen launches in 2018 thanks to government and commercial payload missions that will fly on SpaceX and United Launch Alliance rockets. Spacex should have about 30 of the launches.
When Blue Origin's New Shepard made its seventh test flight on December 12, it not only carried the latest version of the company's Crew Capsule 2.0, but also its first dozen commercial payloads under full US FAA license.
report says as observers warn it will likely be a cover up for a long-range missile test...North Korea is preparing to launch a satellite, it has been claimed, as outside observers warn that the nuclear-armed regime's space programme is likely to be
SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled a tantalizing first glimpse at his company's new megarocket -- the Falcon Heavy -- which is expected to launch on its maiden flight next month.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled a tantalizing first glimpse at his company's new megarocket -- the Falcon Heavy -- which is expected to launch on its maiden flight next month.
aiming for a manned launch in 2018...The battle of the billionaires between Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson looks set to finally blast its first passengers into space next year.