Space Technology

Elon Musk bids Starman farewell in a final Instagram snap

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared the “last pic” of his cherry-red Tesla roadster hurting towards the Asteroid Belt, after it was launched into…

Manned missions, moon shots: what else can we expect from SpaceX for 2018?

SpaceX has blasted to the history books with the successful launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket last night, but you might be wondering about its…

Replay: Watch the moment SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launched

After numerous delays, SpaceX has finally delivered the first test flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket. Billed as the most powerful operational rocket available…

Pictures: the ‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ lights up social media

There’s something mythical about the Moon — that little spherical ball roughly the size of Australia revolving around the Earth more or less once…

Falcon Heavy: world’s most powerful rocket gets launch date

The Falcon Heavy rocket launch has been long-awaited, but it’s seen numerous delays. In fact, SpaceX initially planned for a first test flight as…

Interstellar object seen in solar system for first time

Astronomers around the world have rushed to observe the first confirmed interstellar object in our solar system, taking the form of a cigar-shaped asteroid….

SpaceX won’t launch Zuma into space tonight

SpaceX’s secretive Zuma payload will not be sent into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket tonight, the company tweeted. “Standing down on Zuma mission…

Cassini’s grand finale: Saturn’s best friend embarking on its final mission

NASA’s fabled Cassini mission is about to come to an abrupt but long-coming end. The craft, which has been a part of Saturn’s sky…

Boeing’s Deep Space Gateway will be our high-tech taxi to Mars

There’s a slim chance that us human beings will be populating both the Moon and Mars in the next few decades. Boeing, alongside NASA,…

Mars Curiosity Rover is injured with no one around to fix it

It’s a sad lonely world for a space craft. You’re sent deep into space beyond foreign worlds and forced to survive with little to…

NASA used AI to capture lava lakes from orbit

AI might be all the rage now, but NASA has been using an AI system for over a decade to quickly direct satellites to…

Snapping Dublin’s city lights from space is how NASA celebrated St Patrick’s Day

Everyone feels just a little bit Irish when St. Patrick’s Day comes around. This year, the feast fell on Friday with millions of human…

Scientists propose man-made magnetic field for Mars

Mars is an inhospitable world with an atmosphere that has been stripped away over billions of years. However, scientists at a recent conference have proposed…

SpaceX says it will send two private tourists around moon

Elon Musk announced yesterday that SpaceX will be flying two unnamed private citizens on a trip around the moon next year. The citizens have…

NASA finds seven Earth-like exoplanets in one system

In what is a landmark moment in the search for exoplanets and a possible future second home, NASA has announced the discovery of seven…

Help NASA find the ninth planet in our solar system

Scientists have long believed there to be a ninth planet in our solar system, due to some theories that involve science and numbers and…

Cassini beams back unprecedented views of Saturn’s rings

NASA’s venerable Cassini spacecraft is currently grazing Saturn’s rings, beaming some astounding images back to Earth in the process. The images, published on NASA’s…

X-Ray vision reveals supermassive blackholes nearby

Astronomers at the Southampton University have used “X-ray vision” to reveal supermassive blackholes which were hidden behind thick interstellar gas near our galaxy. The…

Watch: SpaceX returns to space with Iridium-1 launch

SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket, several months after one of its rockets exploded on the launchpad. The rocket was carrying ten communication…

Scientists believe the Milky Way is a cosmic thief, home-wrecker

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics have determined that half of the 11 furthest known stars in the Milky Way were ripped from another…

NASA announces two ambitious missions to asteroids

NASA has just approved two missions to explore asteroids, with the aim of learning more about the early solar system. The two missions, dubbed…

SpaceX set for return to launch on Sunday?

SpaceX has been hard at work following the explosion of one of its rockets on the launchpad late last year. Now, the company has…

Virgin Galactic VSS Unity aces first glide flight

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane has this week completed its first successful glide flight test. The flight was successfully completed at the hands of…

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