Artist’s illustration | Credit: Breakthrough Starshot Scientific and technological ideas can sound outlandish until they suddenly aren’t. Many things people take for granted today were once considered impossible. However, nearly …
A meteor soared over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrating about 30 miles above Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, according to Nasa. The space rock passed through the atmosphere over …
The James Webb Space Telescope just celebrated its second birthday, having started service on July 12, 2022. Here are Webb’s 10 best photos so far to mark the occasion. Before …
“Smart telescopes” are all the rage, thanks to the ease with which novice stargazers can use them to capture beautiful photos of the cosmos. However, they’re often expensive. That’s where …
In late June, China’s space program brought back the first rock and soil samples from the mysterious far side of the moon. It was a major triumph. Scientists worldwide are …
When is it OK to kill an alien life-form? In the movies, the answer is usually pretty simple: It’s OK in self-defense, especially if it inspires a rousing speech about …
The news that SpaceX, the massive aerospace company with an equally vast headquarters in Hawthorne, is apparently departing the South Bay for a new kind of south, caused an immediate …
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. Their existence had been disputed for decades, but now we can finally we can say for sure: …
Back in 2010, NASA made a video game. It was called Moonbase Alpha, and it was meant to simulate what it would actually be like to maintain a lunar colony. …
Space Solar is working on a satellite design called CASSIOPeiA, which Physics World describes as looking “like a spiral staircase, with the photovoltaic panels being the ‘treads’ and the microwave …