The so-called Herbig-Haro objects (HHs) are luminous jets of gas signalling the growth of infant stars. Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers, ...
If I may start with a tired, but extremely true pun: covering the Chinese space industry inevitably involves a lot of reading of tea leaves. Speeches and press releases are full of party jargon. The ...
Dream Chaser shuttle during taxi tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Test Center in California. Image credit: Sierra Space. Sierra Space is working with NASA to develop a crewed version of its Dream ...
Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed two separate contracts to continue the maturation of the VASIMR® rocket technology. The ...
NASA Perseverance rover is now on Mars and busily collecting samples, storing the specimens in tubes, then depositing those tubes on the surface for later pick-up. Image credit: NASA. NASA’s ...
Rendering of “G60 Starlink” Industrial Base. Image credit: ChinaNews.com / Yangtse. For some time, we have been hearing public statements from Chinese decision-makers regarding the country’s LEO ...
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will transport them to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial ...
Astrobotic announced today that the company won a $34.6M NASA Tipping Point partnership to demonstrate power transmission on the lunar surface. The award will result in a demonstration on the Moon ...
Ball Aerospace and its partners at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have successfully completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s camera system, called the Wide Field Instrument ...
Today, NASA announced that a team led by Zeno Power, a developer of commercial radioisotope power systems (RPS), has been awarded a $15 million Tipping Point award to develop an americium-241 (Am-241) ...
Rendering of an Artemis Moon landing. Image credit: NASA. Humans, as a species, have explored several aspects of space research for centuries. Yet now in the 21 st century, we observe one glaring ...
The ISS is too large to entirely burn up in the atmosphere. Image credit: NASA. NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently ...