Biting his nails and watching the launch with his family from his Chico home on Oct. 14, his big moment of relief came when ...
NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 TY21, measuring approximately 40 feet wide, will pass Earth safely today at a distance ...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. [...] ...
The Europa Clipper spacecraft is now on its way to explore Europa, a moon of Jupiter slightly smaller than our moon but with ...
But first stop is Mars for a speed boost, then back to Earth for the final push The Europa Clipper has unfurled its solar ...
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, SpaceX launched its 100th rocket this year, then sent its 101st aloft two hours later, both in their ...
In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...
Elon Musk’s “Starship” project did something spectacular this week. The 160-ton booster landed safely in the arms (or rather, the “chopsticks”) of a rocket-catching device that will soon allow the ...
Launched in 1907, the S.S. Keewatin once transported passengers between Port Arthur/Fort William on Lake Superior and Port ...
Despite not heading directly to Jupiter, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is embarking on a six-year odyssey to explore the icy moon Europa. This extended travel time is primarily due to the spacecraft's ...
Nasa’s mission to a Galilean moon of Jupiter that’s encrusted in a thick shell of ice will let us know if its bulky ocean has ...
The Europa Clipper mission will only be able to do a low fly-by of Europa for a couple of hours every three weeks, because longer immersion in Jupiter’s huge radiation zone would fry its electronics.