Tagged With Space

2 female astronauts politely corrected Trump midspacewalk after the president made a galling error

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

A crushing cost estimate of SpaceX's planned mega-fleet of 42,000 Starlink internet satellites glosses over a huge detail

Dave Mosher

Elon Musk's SpaceX has a plan to deploy up to 30,000 new satellites — and Morgan Stanley says it could cost as much as $60 billion

Daniel Strauss

SpaceX may want to launch 42,000 internet satellites — about 5 times more spacecraft than humanity has ever flown

Dave Mosher

8 weird robots NASA wants to send to space

Clancy Morgan, Abby Tang

45 unreal photos and renderings show how companies are building a space glamping industry for the superrich

Joey Hadden, Dave Mosher

NASA's Hubble space telescope just took incredible photos of a visiting comet from another star system

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

NASA's first all-female spacewalk is finally happening on Friday — here's how to watch it live

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

NASA isn't sure what happened to one of its last Apollo moon landers. The truth is probably depressing.

Dave Mosher

The mysterious case of NASA's missing $1.1 billion moon lander

David Anderson, Bob Hunt, Dave Mosher

A new radar system will track 250,000 tiny pieces of space junk. It may help prevent snowballing collisions that could cut off our access to orbit.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

11 of the biggest innovations shaping the future of spaceflight today

Dave Johnson

Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

A NASA image shows the centre of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

A huge explosion sliced through our galaxy just 3.5 million years ago, as human ancestors walked the Earth. Scientists think it was nuclear activity in the black hole at the Milky Way's centre.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Astronauts just printed meat in space for the first time — and it could change the way we grow food on Earth

Aria Bendix

20 new moons were just discovered orbiting Saturn, and you can help name them

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a former NASA scientist proves it

Dave Mosher

A giant elevator could connect Earth to space using current technology, experts say — here's how that might work

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

A powerful experiment that cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got a huge upgrade

Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Dave Mosher