January 6, 2019 Elon Musk teases what SpaceX’s Starship test vehicle will look like Elon Musk shared concept artwork showing what the completed Starship test vehicle will look like on Saturday.
January 6, 2019 Russia demands NASA explanation over snub of space chief Russia's space agency on Saturday demanded an explanation after NASA postponed indefinitely a planned visit by Russia's space chief.
January 4, 2019 Why China’s spectacular moon landing is so significant China’s Chang’e 4’s unprecedented moon landing on Wednesday is more than a stunning technical achievement. It represents an historic declaration of independence more far-reaching than the American Revolution’s “shot heard round the world.”
January 4, 2019 NASA announces latest discoveries from Ultima Thule flyby NASA has announced the latest discoveries from the New Horizons spacecraft’s historic flyby of Ultima Thule in the far reaches of our solar system.
January 4, 2019 Chinese rover leaves tracks on far side of the Moon China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a stunning new image of the tracks made by the lunar rover that landed on the far side of the lunar surface.
January 4, 2019 'Fossil' cloud made up of pure hydrogen could be remnants of the Big Bang The Big Bang is generally accepted to have occurred roughly 13.7 billion years ago, a time when the universe contained light elements, the heaviest among them hydrogen. From there, elements with significant heft permeated throughout the universe as we know it today.
January 3, 2019 Humanity will slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in a few years to help save us all Humans are preparing to punch the solar system — but in self-defense, not anger.
January 3, 2019 Volcanic plume on Jupiter's moon Io spied by Juno spacecraft NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured an intriguing image of a volcanic plume straddling the line between day and night on Jupiter's notoriously eruptive moon Io .
January 3, 2019 NASA says icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.
January 3, 2019 China successfully lands spacecraft on far side of moon, state media says China successfully landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Thursday, becoming the first country to ever land on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, state news media said.
