Their STEREO is working again!

A Robot Army To Build Solar Panels (On The Moon)

08-22-2016 • http://www.popsci.com

One of 10 insane ideas that just might save the world

NASA Test-Fires Engine for Most Powerful Rocket Ever

08-21-2016 • http://www.space.com, By Sarah Lewin

NASA engineers blasted an RS-25 rocket engine for 7 minutes yesterday (Aug. 18) at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as part of a development test for hardware that will make up the most powerful rocket ever.

Trailer Beyond Earth: the Beginnings of NewSpace

08-18-2016 • Vimeo.com - DLI Productions

Commentary by Michael Belfiore, interviews with Burt and Dick Rutan, Chris Hadfield, and more...

NASA Will Pay $1 Million If You Can Make This Robot Ready For Mars

08-17-2016 • popsci.com

Humanoid programmers get a shot at the stars

China's launch of quantum satellite major step in space race

08-16-2016 • http://bigstory.ap.org

BEIJING (AP) -- China's launch of the first quantum satellite Tuesday will push forward efforts to develop the ability to send communications that can't be penetrated by hackers, experts said.

Scientists Built a 'Mini Black Hole' Out of Sound Waves

08-16-2016 • http://motherboard.vice.com, by PAUL TADICH

Black holes are some of the most massive, mind-bending objects in the universe. They contain immense, almost unimaginable amounts of energy: Supermassive black holes help regulate entire galaxies, past research suggests.

Has a New, Fifth Force of Nature Been Found?

08-15-2016 • http://www.space.com, By Mike Wall

There may be a fifth force of nature, a new study suggests.

Colorado Towns Work to Preserve a Diminishing Resource: Darkness

08-15-2016 • http://www.nytimes.com, By JACK HEALY

As people around the world stepped into their backyards or onto rooftops to peer up at the annual spectacle of the Perseid meteor shower early on Friday morning, few of them had a view like Wilson Jarvis and Steve Linderer.

What a planet needs to sustain life

08-14-2016 • http://www.ted.com, Dave Brain

"Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and Earth is just right," says planetary scientist Dave Brain. But why?

Blue Origin's Sweet Spot: An Untapped Suborbital Market for Private Spaceflight

08-13-2016 • http://www.space.com, By Leonard David

With multiple flights of its New Shepard vehicle under its belt, Blue Origin is appraising the research market for scientific and technological experiments that can be lofted to suborbital space.

China is developing a hypersonic jet

08-13-2016 • http://www.dailymail.co.uk

China is developing a hypersonic aircraft to take pilots, and perhaps even passengers, to the edge of space.

Watch Gorgeous New Footage Of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Launches

08-11-2016 • http://www.popsci.com, By Kate Baggaley

A slow-motion look at past missions

SpaceX has shipped its Mars engine to Texas for tests

08-11-2016 • http://arstechnica.com, ERIC BERGER

If a full-scale Raptor engine is undergoing tests, the company is progressing to Mars.

SpaceX Has Started Testing The Rocket Engine For Its Mars Colonial Transporter

08-10-2016 • http://www.popsci.com, By Kate Baggaley

A Raptor engine has been shipped to Texas

Comet Swift-Tuttle: The Icy Parent of the Perseid Meteor Shower

08-10-2016 • http://www.space.com, By Sarah Lewin

The spectacular Perseid meteor shower, peaking Thursday night (Aug. 11–12), lights up Earth's sky every summer as Earth passes through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a miles-wide behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years.

Space Mining Company Will Launch An Asteroid-Surveying Spacecraft By 2020

08-10-2016 • http://www.popsci.com, By Kate Baggaley

eep Space Industries' Prospector-1 will hunt for valuables and land on an asteroid

Private company wins U.S. clearance to fly to the moon

08-09-2016 • https://ca.news.yahoo.com, By Irene Klotz

A Florida-based company won U.S. government permission on Wednesday to send a robotic lander to the moon next year, the firm's founder said, marking the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth's orbit.

Vladimir Putin Plots a New Fleet of Spies in Space

08-08-2016 • http://www.thedailybeast.com

Russia is working on new, advanced surveillance satellites. But U.S. spooks are already a step ahead. The Russian military is apparently getting ready to launch a new generation of high-tech spy satellites.

Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated

08-08-2016 • http://www.wired.com,KEVIN CAREY

HISTORY WILL NOTE that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death-metal band and worked in a planetary science lab.

Private company cleared for landing ... on the moon

08-04-2016 • http://newatlas.com, Stu Robarts

For the first time ever, a private company has been given permission to land on the moon.

Reusable Falcon 9 rocket completes first full-duration test-fire

08-04-2016 • http://www.redorbit.com

Having all but mastered landing their reusable Falcon 9 boosters, SpaceX on Thursday test-fired one of those rockets at full thrust for 150 seconds (the same amount of time they have to function during an actual trip to space) to demonstrate that the

Chelyabinsk Meteor: Wake-Up Call for Earth

08-03-2016 • http://www.space.com, By Elizabeth Howell

A small asteroid broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013. The shock wave it generated shattered glass and injured about 1,200 people.

Life On Earth May Have Arisen Unusually Early

08-02-2016 • popsci.com

Now we wait for the rest of the cosmos to catch up

Warning Shots Fired: China Releases Video of Missile Launch, Amps Up Tensions with U.S.

08-02-2016 • True Activist

Assuming the initial satellite performs well, as many as 20 additional craft would follow in the effort to create a new category of communications network. Chinese researchers believe their work could ignite a space race as other nations move to refi

Nasa to launch probe to investigate 'Armageddon' asteroid

08-01-2016 • http://www.independent.co, Samuel Osborne

The asteroid will pass between Earth and the moon in 2135

SpaceX receives order for second manned mission

07-31-2016 • http://www.gizmag.com

SpaceX awarded a second post-certification mission order for its Crew Dragon manned spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the (ISS). NASA says that the new contract, which could lead to as many as six flights, will put the United States back into the man

Watch SpaceX Test A Million Pounds Of Reusable Rocket Thrust

07-29-2016 • popsci.com

This booster's rigorous testing will determine if and how other rockets are reusable