NASA on Friday unveiled the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and two Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts on the first crewed Artemis mission around the moon. A four-astronaut mission to orbit the moon is scheduled…
SpaceX’s Starship 8 lifted into the Texas evening sky from its Starbase launch pad near Brownsville on Thursday, but crews lost contact with the spacecraft minutes after liftoff. It was the first test flight since Starship 7 broke apart midflight…
The privately built Athena spacecraft is beaming data back to NASA scientists on Earth, it was announced Thursday. But the craft didn’t land exactly as expected, and scientists aren’t sure of its exact location. This is already the second ship…
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have preserved the power reserves of the record-breaking Voyager 1 and 2 space probes nearly 50 years after their launch to extend their lifespan. In 1977, NASA began launching probes that used a decaying…
Japanese lunar exploration company iSpace said Tuesday it plans to place a lander on the moon on June 6. The company’s founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada held a press conference on Monday to share details of its second lunar mission,…
SpaceX on Monday suspended the eighth test flight of its largest and most powerful rocket. After a brief pause 40 seconds before the scheduled liftoff, the Starship mission was postponed. The fuel was then removed from the booster and spacecraft.…
On Sunday evening, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites from the Florida coast. The launch took place on schedule at 9:24 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, although backup options were available until 12:21…
An artistic illustration of a deceptive AI. (Image credit: Getty Images) A new study from OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has shown that punishing AI for deceptive or harmful actions does not prevent it from behaving badly; it only makes…
Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded on the International Space Station for nine months due to engine problems on their Boeing Starliner spacecraft, closed the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday evening to begin the journey…
In April 1982, Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman peered through an electron microscope at a rapidly cooled alloy of aluminum and manganese, expecting to see the familiar orderly patterns of a traditional crystal. Instead, he observed something extraordinary: a structure with…
An artistic illustration of the virus. (Image credit: THOM LEACH/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI) tool has solved a problem that took scientists a decade to solve in just two days. Jose Penades and his…
Virgin Media has launched a new promotion offering customers the chance to get an iPad completely free. It’s almost impossible to get an Apple device without spending anything, but that’s exactly what you’re offered now if you visit Virgin Media’s…