Space

Fusion power is the technology that is thirty years away, and always will be – according to skeptics at least.  Despite its difficult transition into a reliable power source, the nuclear reactions that power the sun have a wide variety of uses in other fields.  The most obvious is in […]

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is speaking at the 2020 International Mars Society Convention today (Oct. 16) to make an announcement about SpaceX’s plans for private spaceflights to the moon and Mars. 

SpaceX is almost ready to start building a permanent human settlement on Mars with its massive Starship rocket.

It’s been a long road for InSight’s Mole. InSight landed on Mars almost two years ago, in November 2018. While the lander’s other instruments are working fine and returning scientific data, the Mole has been struggling to hammer its way into the surface of the planet.

Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other organisations around the world, astronomers have spotted a rare blast of light from a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The phenomenon, known as a tidal disruption event, is the closest such flare recorded to date at […]

One of the most anticipated announcements is the official name of Space Force members

In his 1979 bestselling book “The Right Stuff,” journalist Tom Wolfe wrote about the Mercury 7 astronauts as being the last of the single-combat warriors.

The new moon occurs on Friday (Oct. 16), at 3:31 p.m. EDT (1931 GMT), on the same day that our natural satellite reaches perigee, or the closest point to Earth in its orbit, according to NASA’s SkyCal site. 

It looks like humanity just dodged a pretty big space-junk bullet.