China's Chang'e-5 probe takes off from the moon and begins its return journey to Earth carrying the first rock samples to be collected from the lunar surface in 40 years
Black holes are, by far, the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are objects in the cosmos where all of our knowledge of physics completely breaks down.
SpaceX is set to perform testing with Starship SN8. This test will help verify that everything is ready to go ahead of the 15-kilometer hop scheduled for no earlier than Friday.
Death of the SETI telescope: World famous Arecibo Observatory that led the hunt for alien life and featured in Bond movie COLLAPSES into debris- strewn crater
Virgin Orbit is preparing its pilots, Cosmic Girl mothership and LauncherOne rocket for a second attempt at orbital flight, today announcing that its Launch Demo 2 mission will take place a week before Christmas.
In 2021, SpaceX will be making about one hundred reusable SpaceX Starships. A 15,000 altitude test (50,000 feet) is expected during the first week of December 2020 for the SN8 starship prototype.
Black holes are regions of infinite density, known as a singularity. And according to mainstream physics, each of these cosmic matter munchers is fringed by an event horizon ?"- a boundary where once you fall in, you never come out
What a jam-packed episode we have for you this week. We catch up with the latest SpaceX Starship developments including another successful static fire test before the imminent Starship flight to 15km, Bellyflop and Land
Last year, Elon Musk tweeted that Starship Version 2.0 will be 18 meters in diameter instead of 9 meters. Nextbigfuture wrote about this conceptual plan last year.
It what could mark the beginning of another era of "space races", China has officially launched an unmanned spacecraft to the moon with plans of bringing back lunar rocks.
Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX developed and uses LIDAR for Dragon docking with the Space Station. Elon and Tesla do not use LIDAR for for self-driving.
Last week, the Earth had its closest shave with an asteroid ever recorded, when a small space rock skimmed just 370 km (230 miles) above the surface. For comparison, that's closer than the orbit of the International Space Station.
"Eight minutes after the liftoff, and immediately after the ignition of the engine of the fourth stage of Vega, the Avum stage, we have observed the degradation of the trajectory. It means that the speed was not nominal anymore," Israël said during
Watch live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-1 launch as four astronauts head to the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will take off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Watch live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-1 launch as four astronauts head to the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will take off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
ESA's exoplanet mission Ariel, scheduled for launch in 2029, has moved from study to implementation phase, following which an industrial contractor will be selected to build the spacecraft.
SN8 fired up its engines for the third time, but suffered a loss of pneumatics and was unable to drain the LOX header tank in the nosecone- luckily a burst disk prevented a potentially catastrophic overpressure event. Some liquid that looked like mol
Today amongst other things I'll explain to you, how SpaceX might be able to move Starships to a sea launch platform and when we might expect the highly anticipated flight of Starship SN8.