Zoom in / The SpaceX spacecraft is expected to have landing legs. The first-stage launch vehicle, the Super Heavy, might not.SpaceX To build a completely reusable launch system for its interplanetary spacecraft, SpaceX had to solve a myriad of technical…
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Photo: Robin Beck / Agence France-Presse (Getty Images)On January 3, 2004, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Soul He started making history. It landed on the Red Planet for the first time, and one of NASA's longest and most successful missions began…
CINCINNATI - In 2020, backyard star-watchers are treated to a surprise guest at Comet NEOWISE and the full moon on Halloween night.Astronomers in Patagonia marveled at a total solar eclipse, and the planets Jupiter and Saturn had come together once…
A Harvard professor named Avi Loeb, head of the astronomy department at Harvard University, believes that the first hint we will get about an alien intelligence will not be a spacecraft. Rather, he thinks that the first sign we'll get…
While 2020 may have been derailed and some science delayed due to the pandemic, 2021 still promises to be the year of science "which we rarely see," according to Thomas Zurbuchen, co-director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Multiple missions will…
A study by the University of Cambridge indicates that the discovery of a medieval Chinese coin dating back to the early eleventh century is a real find. The 25mm copper alloy coin was discovered in Boreton, near Petersfield, and archaeologists…
On January 2, 2021, Earth is closer to the sun It is in its elliptical orbit more than any other day of the year, on the occasion of an annual event known as perihelion. The word perihelion is translated from…
BBC reports that a company and a university in Japan Satellite design made of wood. Regardless of the request, Qualities of a hipster For such a noble material, what is the point? One benefit: when the satellite shuts down and…
Britain will launch an automated "space spider" to the moon in 2021, the first time that a rover has been sent to explore a distant world. The small probe - called Asagumo - was designed by London robotics expert, Spacebit,…
The crew is on board International Space Station The ISS rang in the new year with the development of zero gravity while in orbit about 250 miles from Earth.Expedition 64 crew consists of NASA Astronauts Kate Robins, Mike Hopkins, Victor…