New Paper Describes How We Could Detect Alien Spacecraft Powered by Black Holes In the course of looking for possible signs of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI), scientists have had to do some really outside-of-the-box thinking. Since […]
A Historic Launch SpaceX successfully launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:49 am EST this morning. Main engine cutoff […]
New Horizons spacecraft returns its sharpest views of Ultima Thule The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely point the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the […]
Using laser beams for communication and coordination of spacecraft swarms Swarms of small spacecraft could have a variety of interesting applications, particularly in terms of Earth observation, global positioning and communications. Compared to large spacecraft, […]
MAVEN spacecraft shrinking its Mars orbit to prepare for Mars 2020 rover NASA’s 4-year-old atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission is embarking on a new campaign today to tighten its orbit around Mars. […]
Aboard the first spacecraft to the trojan asteroids—NASA Ralph’s next adventure Ralph, one of NASA’s most well-traveled space explorers, has voyaged far and accomplished much: on the New Horizons mission, Ralph obtained stunning flyby images […]