The space industry is in the middle of a widespread transformation, as the last decade has seen a number of young companies begin to seek to profit in an area where most of the money was made from military contracts or expensive communications satellites. The estimated $400 billion space economy is still largely dominated by […]
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a spending bill Oct. 31 that provides $22.75 billion for NASA in fiscal year 2020, but final agreement on funding for agency programs may still be weeks, if not months, away. On an 84–9 vote, the Senate approved a so-called “minibus” appropriations bill that combined several separate measures, including the […]
WASHINGTON — Shares in suborbital spaceflight company Virgin Galactic were flat in their first day of trading as company leadership says that they will retain a long-term mindset despite now being a public company. Virgin Galactic stock closed at $11.75 per share in its first day of trading Oct. 28 on the New York Stock […]
Gabriela González talks about the LIGO Collaboration’s gravitational-wave discoveries and how they advance our understanding of the universe in a special public lecture this evening (Oct. 23) hosted by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Watch live in the window above at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT), courtesy of the Perimeter Institute, or directly via the Institute. From […]
Clouds may interfere with your skywatching for International Observe the Moon Night, but there’s always a perfect view of our satellite in a stunning new NASA animation of the lunar landscape. The animation, called the CGI moon kit, is composed of data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The agency released it online to make data more accessible […]
On a distant space rock being explored by a NASA probe, days are slowly shortening — and scientists are still trying to figure out why. Right now, the asteroid known as Bennu is spinning once every 4.3 hours. But scientists working on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the space rock have used data gathered before the […]
Omega is celebrating the golden anniversary of the first moon landing by going gold. The Swiss watchmaker on Tuesday (March 12) revealed the Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Limited Edition, an 18-karat gold chronograph modeled after the timepieces gifted to the astronauts after the Apollo 11 mission established the Speedmaster as the first watch worn […]
NASA is considering launching its Orion crew capsule on a commercial rocket rather than the Space Launch System, the agency’s own megarocket that is currently under development. The Space Launch System (SLS) is a super-heavy-lift launch vehicle touted as what will be the most powerful rocket in existence. It will be capable of carrying astronauts […]
What was life like on Cybertron before the Autobot/Decepticon War? IDW Publishing turns back the clock for a “bold new era” that’s actually an old era – when Optimus Prime and Megatron got along. (Image: © Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)) Well, “got along” might be a touch strong. Prose author Brian Ruckley (“The Goddess World” […]
The segment is a deleted scene from the new documentary “Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking The Universe,” which premiered Sunday (March 10) on the Science Channel. It will air again March 14, on the one-year anniversary of Stephen Hawking’s death at 76 (which, coincidentally, is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.) Much of the theoretical work they produced […]