The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having…
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Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio…
Elon Musk is likely to become the world’s first trillionaire when SpaceX lists in what is expected to be the…
There’s a reason why anything complicated is compared to rocket science. One of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rockets — the…
Orbit Robotics, a Swiss company, has unveiled Helios. Nominally a humanoid, at least in general shape, the robot has one…
A company in Japan is prepping to send a robot inspired by the Gundam anime into space. It’s slightly less…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in Nature Communications. The…
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory As if Jeff Bezos needed a bigger head, the Amazon founder’s space company,…
At this point in NASA’s human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material – documents, artefacts, and images –…
The four Artemis II astronauts who looped around the Moon this week are expected to splash down soon. NASA’s grand mission spells…